On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:56:32PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Having just installed the Gnome 2.2 backport, I'm trying to drop kde > from my box totally. Never liked the "underline the desktop icons" > thing anyway[1] :-) > > I thought I'd got it all out, but witness the following: > > bigdaddy:/home/jaycee# apt-get dist-upgrade -u > [snip] > The following NEW packages will be installed: > kdelibs-data > The following packages have been kept back > gnu-smalltalk imagemagick libcurl2 liblcms1 liblcms1-dev libmng-dev > libmng1 libpng12-0 libpng12-0-dev libpng3 libwmf0.2-7 > mpeglib tetrinetx > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not > upgraded. > > I'm not asking anyone to tell me why my particular mix of sources is > doing this, I'm wondering more if there's a grep-available or grep-dctrl > invocation that might tell me which *installed* packages *depend* on > kdelibs-data. Yes, I know "kdelibs & kdelibs4", but neither of them is > installed.
Use aptitude :) You could just scroll down to 'kdelibs-data', hit enter, scroll down to 'packages which depend on this' (or whatever the exact wording is) and see a neat list of packages that are installed, broken, queued for install, etc, etc. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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