Yes, I looked at apt-cache but that's the source for my question. `--> apt-cache -s remove dbus E: Invalid operation dbus
-or- `--> apt-cache remove dbus E: Invalid operation remove It appears that remove is not supported in the fink version of apt-cache ... Bill W On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Daniel Macks <dma...@netspace.org> wrote: > I've got a bunch of one-liners that do various dep-tree parsing, but it > sounds like you want to walk "all the way up" and you only care about > what's already installed? In that case, 'apt-cache -s remove' seems to be a > dry-run at recursive removal, with output saying what would be removed. > dan > > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:40:07 -0400, Bill Waggoner <ctgreybe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Yes, but used recursively that has the unfortunate side effect of actually > removing some things. fink remove has no --dry-run option. Maybe I'll look > into writing something that will tell me what I want. If I do I'll share > it. > >> >> Bill W >> >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> >> wrote: >> >> Bill Waggoner wrote on Tue, 27 Oct 2015: >> >> > The Fink apt package doesn't include 'rdepends' in apt-cache. I'm >> trying to >> > figure out why some packages I have installed were installed. I can't >> find >> > a way to do that but the apt-cache rdepends would go a long way to >> helping >> > ... >> As a workaround, you could try removing that package and see what >> other packages would be removed if you did so. >> Jonas >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List archive: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user >> Subscription management: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> >> ------------------------- >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> ------------------------- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> List archive: >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user >> Subscription management: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> >> > -- > Daniel Macks > dma...@netspace.org > >
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