Re: How to tell WHY apt wants to install so many packages
--- Jason Rennie <jrennie@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 04:35:44PM +0000, Thomas Adam wrote:
> > $ apt-cache depends <package>
> > $ apt-rdepends <package>
>
> Hmm... neither of these tell you what packages depend on <package>
> (which I think is what the poster was after). Is there a utility that
> can give you this information?
How do you mean? Take "cowsay":
[n6tadam@station 20050118]$ apt-cache depends cowsay
cowsay
Depends: <perl5>
perl
Isn't that showing that we need perl to use cowsay? the apt-rdepends is
recursive in that sense. Unless I have misunderstood something, that is
what he wanted, no?
-- Thomas Adam
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