Re: gnome 1 packages up for adoption

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Thomas Bushnell BSG [Sat, 27 May 2006 15:49:41 -0700]:

Hi Thomas,

> (indeed, whenever I use rdepends I get a lot of
> spurious entries, and I don't know why, and it requires gobs of manual
> work to figure out which ones are real).

One scenario in which it does not work:

  http://chistera.yi.org/~adeodato/blog/debian/07_evil_apt-cache_rdepends.html

I really recommend that you spend a few minutes learning to use
grep-dctrl / grep-available, which will give you the exact set of
packages you ask for.

HTH,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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