apt-findremovable v0.1 (initial release)

[Jan Kechel <jan@kechel.de>]

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Hi,

I hope this is the right mailinglist for this.

I always had the problem, that if I removed a package via apt-get
remove, that there were still other packages that only were installed
because of that package.

I wrote a little perl-script:

NAME
apt-findremovable - tries to find out which packages might be installed
only because of a specified one.

SYNOPSIS
$ apt-findremovable <package-name>

DESCRIPTION
we use 'apt-cache depends' and 'apt-cache rdepends' to find out which
packages might be installed only because of the specified one.

EXAMPLE
$ ./apt-findremovable texlive
...
Only texlive depends on the following installed packages:
perl-tk
texlive-doc-en
texlive-context
texlive-metapost

The v0.1 release can downloaded via:
http://prevalent-digest.de/apt-findremovable/apt-findremovable-0.1.tar.bz2

So my questions are:

Is there a mailinglist special for apt-tools?
Does a tool like this already exist?
Would alioth.debian.org be the right place for this?

cu,

Jan

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