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Re: Who installed package "foo"?



Andreas Ronnquist wrote:
> >Dear Colleagues,
> >
> >When I want to figure out what package has installed package "foo" as a
> >dependency, is there a less barbaric method than 
> >
> >apt-get -s remove foo 
> >
> >?
> >
> 
> There's 
> 
> aptitude why [package]
> 
> which should do what you ask.

I would like to avoid installing aptitude just for this purpose, if
possible. It's kind of bloated.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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