I would like to know why a certain package is going to be installed or at
least find out which package installed on my system is depending on it.
This came about as I was upgrading my Sid Laptop and noticed that it wanted
to install Hal during an apt-get dist-upgrade. I am using consolekit and
policykit and did not think I should need Hal anymore. I would rather
identify the package depending on it an look for alternatives.
I tried apt-rdepends but frankly got a little lost with it's usage in my
situation.
I also tried this horrible hack:
for i in $(dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}') ; do apt-cache show $i | grep -i hal
| grep Package ; done
Thanks.
