Lo, on Sunday, September 12, Trevor Harmon did write:

> P.S. On a related note, how do I query a package for a list of its 
> dependencies? This was quite easy with RPM, but there doesn't seem to 
> be any way to do it with Fink.

For an installed package,

    dpkg -p <pkg>

For an uninstalled .deb, 

    dpkg -I <filename>

So, ferinstance, either "dpkg -p m4" or 
"dpkg -I /sw/fink/debs/m4_1.4-6_darwin-powerpc.deb".

This gives you a lot of extra information, but the dependency and
conflict information is in there.

Richard


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