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Re: Listing Package dependencies



"Josh Guffin" <guffin@inbox.ru> writes:

> Hi, is there a way to list only the packages with no dependencies?
> Or, some other useful way to find packages that got installed because
> of other packages that aren't there anymore?

If you install packages with aptitude, it will keep track of this for
you.  You can also toggle aptitude's "automatically installed" bit by
pressing "M".  If a package is automatically installed and nothing
depends on it, aptitude will flag it for removal.

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David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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