(I'm on the list, so replying back to the list is probably best.)
theartloy@zoho.com grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Check it 'deborphan', in the archive.
> It does a reverse dependency lookup on a package, similar to apt-cache's
> depends and rdepends commands, but only shows installed packages.
>
> So to see all the packages you have installed that depend on avahi, run:
> deborphan -a avahi-daemon
> or to see the packages that depend on or 'recommend' avahi, run:
> deborphan -an avahi-daemon
Thanks; good to know about that one, but that's not quite what I'm
looking for. I'm hoping that someone on the list knows if it's
something that's really needed. I already know there are packages set
as dependent on it since it tells me all about that when I try to purge
the package. :-)
--Dave
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