Re: Investigating dependency trees

Tom H wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Synaptic and dselect provide this information for *ONE* level down from a particular package *IF* an actual installation and repository exist. apt-cache depends --recurse apt-cache rdepends --recurse Reading the man pag

Re: Investigating dependency trees

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Synaptic and dselect provide this information for *ONE* level down from a > particular package *IF* an actual installation and repository exist. apt-cache depends --recurse apt-cache rdepends --recurse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Investigating dependency trees

I'm working on a very customized minimal install. A selection criteria for top level applications will be how many packages will it pull in that are not used by other packages. A further optimization may be which packages automatically installed by Debian Installer are not needed by actual targe