On Tue, 1999-12-07 at 23:13:32 +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Is there any way in Debian to find out what packages no other packages > depend on? > > When I install a couple of packages, all the libraries they depend on are > installed as well, which is quite nice, but the reverse doesn't hold - when > I remove packages, unnecessary libraries are not removed. Because of this, I > would like to get a list of packages that no packages depend on (restricted, > for instance, to packages starting with lib).
You might want to check out the package pkg-order, in particular, its programs pkg-deptree and pkg-revdeps. Keith
