Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On 22/11/16 07:06, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>> On 11/21/2016 11:38 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>>>
>>> apt-rdepends --state-show=Installed --state-follow=Installed PKGNAME
>>
>>
>>
>> It lists just a couple of base packages. So, why would it want to remove
>> half of mmy installed desktop? It's the same with firefox. What gives??
>> Ric
>
>
> kamaraju appears to have mistyped the command, omitting the vitally
> important (for this exercise) '-r' flag. As written, it will show you what
> PKGNAME depends on, directly or indirectly. The command is properly:
>
> apt-rdepends -r --state-show=Installed --state-follow=Installed PKGNAME
>
> (note the '-r' flag)
>
> This will show you what *depends on* PKGNAME (either by depending on it
> directly, or by depending on something that does). Now, this still won't get
> you a full answer, because it won't show you all the Automatically Installed
> packages that will be removed, but it will give you a starting point for
> understanding what's going on.
>
Thanks for correcting me Martin. Yes, you are right. We need the -r
flag for this use case.
raju
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