The deborphan package has an option to let you do this. Here's an
example from my system:
[ldx3:~] hansen% deborphan --show-deps xfree86-base
xfree86-base
fvwm-common
xdvi
fvwm2
xforms-shlibs
worker
giflib-bin
xfree86-rootless
emacs21
giflib-shlibs
xless
axyftp
autocutsel
imagemagick
xaw3d
aalib-shlibs
t1lib1-shlibs
ghostscript6
gtk+
xpdf
tcltk-shlibs
gv
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Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
Levitated Dipole Experiment
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA 02139-4213
Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Don MacQueen wrote:
> Hi,
> The fink faq says this:
>
> Q6.3: There are suddenly a number of strange users on my system, with
> names like "mysql", "pgsql", and "games". Where did they come from?
>
> A: You have used Fink to install a package which is dependent on
> another package, passwd.
>
> At which point, I would like to know, which one was it? Because,
> perhaps, I didn't notice which one it was. Or something.
>
> More generally, I can I find out what packages depend on package "X"
> where X is any arbitrary package I might be interested in.
>
> Thanks
> -Don
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> Don MacQueen
> Environmental Protection Department
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> Livermore, CA, USA
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