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



On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:31:27PM +0100, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> 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>

I'll correct myself. It is the other way around, as Thomas Adam just
wrote. At any rate, for the dependencies and reverse dependencies
there are four options: `apt-cache [r]depends' or `apt-rdepends
[-r]'. Just try them all and you'll figure which one you want. :)

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