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Re: How to tell WHY apt wants to install so many packages



On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:15:37AM -0500, Jason Rennie 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?

That would be:

apt-cache rdepends <package>

I think you can also do that with the mentioned apt-rdepends
package. I just installed it. Indeed:

apt-rdepends -r <package>

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