> BTW, what tool did you use? apt-cache showpkg java-virtual-machine (and look in the Reverse Depends section). Note that this pulls in Recommends: j-v-m and Suggests: j-v-m as well, which is presumably why my search picked up more packages than yours. In particular my search picks up a number of java library packages, which according to java policy 2.4 should *not* depend on j-v-m but only suggest it instead. b.