Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 apt-cache and its manual page uses the word "dependency" backwards. This error makes the documentation hard to understand.
Per the The American Heritage Dictionary (via http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dependency), a dependency is: ... 2. Something dependent or subordinate. ... That is, if A depends on B, A is a dependency of B. (B is not a dependency of A.) Note that the manual page uses "dependency" backwards: Forward (normal) dependencies are those packages upon which the package in question depends... apt-cache itself uses "dependency" backwards also: $ apt-cache showpkg apt Package: apt ... Reverse Depends: debconf,apt 0.3.12.1 ... Dependencies: 0.5.4 - libc6 (2 2.2.3-7) libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (0 (null)) dpkg-dev (0 (null)) libapt-pkg-doc (3 0.3.7) libapt-pkg-dev (3 0.3.7) ... If apt-cache said "Depends on:" instead of "Dependencies:", it would be correct. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
