Oops, cut'n'pasted the wrong line from my terminal. Try apt-get instead 
of apt-cache. 

dan

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 10:17:29 -0400, Bill Waggoner 
<ctgreybe...@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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