(I'm on the list, so replying back to the list is probably best.) theart...@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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