Re: Who installed package "foo"?

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org>]

Le 01/11/2020 à 13:35, Andreas Ronnquist a écrit :
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2020 18:59:16 +0700,
> Victor Sudakov<vas@sibptus.ru> wrote:
>
> > Dear Colleagues,
> >
> > When I want to figure out what package has installed package "foo" as a
> > dependency, is there a less barbaric method than
> >
> > apt-get -s remove foo
> >
> > ?
>
> There's
>
> aptitude why [package]

or apt-cache rdepends foo

Regards

> which should do what you ask.
>
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