On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 02:18, <daven...@tuxfamily.org> wrote: > On 2023-03-02 14:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 02:01:57PM +0100, daven...@tuxfamily.org wrote:
> >> > > > akb@akira:~$ LC_ALL=C aptitude why ifupdown > >> > > > p netscript-2.4 Provides ifupdown > >> > > > p netscript-2.4 Depends bridge-utils (>= 0.9.3) > >> > > > p bridge-utils Suggests ifupdown > >> > > > akb@akira:~$ LC_ALL=C aptitude why netscript-2.4 > >> > > > p netscript-2.4 Provides ifupdown > > > >> dpkg -l netscript-2.4 or even dpkg -l | grep netscript > >> > >> Don't return anything… Not sure why "aptitude why ifupdown" mentions > >> netscript-2.4 at all You could try 'aptitude -v why' to add verbosity. /usr/share/aptitude/README has some discussion about the behaviour of 'why' and 'why-not'. Under the heading 'why, why-not'.
