On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:18:35AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > 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. > > Deborphan is nearly perfect for this. Right now, it just keeps track of > whether a package was installed to satisfy a dependancy, or because you > really want it. If instead of the y/n question it uses for this, it > asked _why_ you want a package, and stored the result, there would be > much interesting data to munge.
I believe it is debfoster that works the way you described, while deborphan merely finds installed library packages that do not satisfy any dependencies. -- - mdz
