On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:19:08PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I am installing some new servers and I want a list of the reason for each > package being installed (no software is to be installed without a good > reason).
Interesting idea... > I then want to have a program go through this file and produce a list of all > the packages those packages depend on and give them the same reason (cpp is > needed for software development because gcc depends on it, libldap2 is needed > because postfix-tls depends on it). Then the program will list the packages > without a reason for being installed. > Is there a program for this already? deborphan might be tweakable to do this. pkg-order could also be useful. Apt 0.5 now has a python interface, and possibly a perl interface, so that's probably usable too. HTH. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``_Any_ increase in interface difficulty, in exchange for a benefit you do not understand, cannot perceive, or don't care about, is too much.'' -- John S. Novak, III (The Humblest Man on the Net)
