Incoming from Rob S: > > Is there a guide somewhere that details the dependencies for every > "common" lib file for the packages included in one or more > distributions? I find that when i install any distribution, its a great > time saver to just install all included libs, so I'm not missing any, > but I end up installing things i dont need. I would really like to find > out more or less of what i need.
There's the manual approach in Debian: apt-cache show blah I imagine you could wrap that in a shell script, passing in the names of all installed packages, grepping for "requires" or something. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
