Re: Show why package is being installed or show which installed package depends on it.

[James Robertson]

>
> aptitude why $package-name
> OR
> aptitude why $search-term-for-root-pkgs $package-name
>
> aptitude why $package-name == aptitude why '~i' $package-name
> --
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                   ,= ,-_-. =.
>
>
Thanks, is there an equivalent of this using apt.  I can of course use
aptitude but I am curious about apt since I use that.