I've got a bunch of one-liners that do various dep-tree parsing, but it 
sounds like you want to walk "all the way up" and you only care about 
what's already installed? In that case, 'apt-cache -s remove' seems to 
be a dry-run at recursive removal, with output saying what would be 
removed. 

dan

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:40:07 -0400, Bill Waggoner 
<ctgreybe...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, but used recursively that has the unfortunate side effect of 
actually removing some things. fink remove has no --dry-run option. 
Maybe I'll look into writing something that will tell me what I want. 
If I do I'll share it. 
>
> Bill W
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Jonas Maebe 
> <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
>
> Bill Waggoner wrote on Tue, 27 Oct 2015:
>
> > The Fink apt package doesn't include 'rdepends' in apt-cache. I'm trying to
> > figure out why some packages I have installed were installed. I can't find
> > a way to do that but the apt-cache rdepends would go a long way to helping
> > ... 
>
> As a workaround, you could try removing that package and see what
> other packages would be removed if you did so. 
>
> Jonas
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