On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 06:41:03PM -0500, Preston Landers wrote: > 1/ Can do a full information search > This would let you search for a specific maintainer's > packages, for instance. Or "show me all packages that depend on > package foo." (You'd do this by using "Depends.*foo" as the > arguement.)
You can do that with apt-cache too... Can you limit it further to show
me reverse depends (or optionally reverse all relationships) on a package
if they are installed? =>
I'm hoping the more advanced features of an eventual apt front end for
the console might allow such exotic and practical searches...
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