It would be great if (opening words to many a pipe dream but nevertheless) 
the package catalog UI directly included information about what other 
packages are dependent on a package, at least for the purposes of package 
developers. This is useful information beyond backwards-compatibility 
concerns, as it makes it easy to track down the source code of clients to 
see *how* people are actually using your package. It's also a good 
indicator of how "core" a package is and how supported it is, fringe 
package X with zero clients could be completely broken and nobody would 
notice while commonly used package Y which a fifth of the catalog depends 
on can be relatively trusted. 

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