On Tuesday 29 March 2005 04:16 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:23 -0500 Matthew Cline
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | You can use qpkg to find those packages that depend upon another:
Not for system targets.
Then what does the following mean? Is it unreliable?
sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 DEPENDED ON BY: app-arch/rpm-4.2 dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r5 dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 mail-mta/postfix-2.1.5-r2 sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5 sys-libs/pam-0.77-r6
and on and on for all the installed versions.
it mean that some packages have an explicit depend on it.
But this is _not_ required, and probably there are many more that depend on db.
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