On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 10:04:33PM -0500, Preston Landers wrote:
> > You can do that with apt-cache too... Can you limit it further to show
> > me reverse depends (or optionally reverse all relationships) on a package
> > if they are installed? =>
>
> Hmmm... I'll certainly give it a whack. But could you please explain
> what you mean by reverse depends? The reverse of all packages that
> depend on foo is what? All packages that foo depends on? Please
> explain. Surely you don't mean printing the Depends: line in the
> search results.
List packages that are installed which depend on foo (or actually depend,
suggest, recommend, pre-depend, etc---in that more complex case the
relationship would help but in the simple case just the list of packages
is all I'd need)
> > I'm hoping the more advanced features of an eventual apt front end for
> > the console might allow such exotic and practical searches...
>
> The more options the better, I say. I'm thinking about turning the
> interactive installation mode of my script into a general package
> environment ... ie, tab-completion for availible packages. I'm such a
> big tab completion freak. By the way, I did another optimization just
> now and shaved 30% off its execution time (down to about 7 secs for
> me.)
Cool.. I'll be interested to try it when it's done..
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer
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<jim> Lemme make sure I'm not wasting time here... bcwhite will remove
pkgs that havent been fixed that have outstanding bugs of severity
"important". True or false?
<JHM> jim: "important" or higher. True.
<jim> Then we're about to lose ftp.debian.org and dpkg :)
* netgod will miss dpkg -- it was occasionally useful
<Joey> We still have rpm....
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