Re: adduser rewrite

[Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:58:22PM +0200, Pavel Tcholakov wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-08-29 at 14:45, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> > perl-base is essential, so there are probably undeclared dependencies.
> > Furthermore, base is more than just Priority: required (and adduser is
> > Priority: important these days anyway).
> 
> How does one get a list of what needs Perl in base then? :)

As a first approximation, by combining dpkg -L with file :

jules@pear [14] dpkg -L dpkg | xargs file | grep perl

jules