That's got it. It's not great but it suits my purpose. Some annoying error messages are now gone.
Thanks. Bill W On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Daniel Macks <dma...@netspace.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > ------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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