Re: How to find out apt-get's reasoning

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Jonathan Matthews said:

> I'm not asking anyone to tell me why my particular mix of sources is
> doing this, I'm wondering more if there's a grep-available or grep-dctrl
> invocation that might tell me which *installed* packages *depend* on
> kdelibs-data.  Yes, I know "kdelibs & kdelibs4", but neither of them is
> installed.

how about

grep "^Depends:" /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -in kdelibs-data

then go to the line number it spits out to find the package(I use
vi, and hit :<line number>)

or

apt-get -s remove kdelibs-data

and see what it says will be removed along with it.

nate