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jwhendy

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Registered: 2010-04-01

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[SOLVED] List owning package of a dependent package?

Hi,

Just wondering if there is a way to list what package another package is a dependent of. I'm familiar with:

-Qdt: list true dependencies

-Qo <file>: list package that owns a particular file

What I want is to look at some package returned from 'pacman -Qd' and find out what packages depend on it. Is that possible?

I guess I could do something like 'pacman -Rc <dependency>' and see what it wants to remove? But is that recursive as in does it only remove packages directly dependent on package x, or if package y is dependent on x and package z is dependent on y... does it remove all three?

Thanks.

Last edited by jwhendy (2010-07-21 22:27:14)

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] List owning package of a dependent package?

pacman -Qi <package-name> | grep "Required By"

Last edited by Inxsible (2010-07-21 22:23:37)

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jwhendy

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Re: [SOLVED] List owning package of a dependent package?

So freaking fast. I had not thought to go that route. Perfect.