Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit

From	kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit
Date	2016-11-22 14:00 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On 22/11/16 07:06, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>> On 11/21/2016 11:38 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
>>>
>>> apt-rdepends --state-show=Installed --state-follow=Installed PKGNAME
>>
>>
>>
>> It lists just a couple of base packages. So, why would it want to remove
>> half of mmy installed desktop? It's the same with firefox. What gives??
>> Ric
>
>
> kamaraju appears to have mistyped the command, omitting the vitally
> important (for this exercise) '-r' flag. As written, it will show you what
> PKGNAME depends on, directly or indirectly. The command is properly:
>
> apt-rdepends -r --state-show=Installed --state-follow=Installed PKGNAME
>
> (note the '-r' flag)
>
> This will show you what *depends on* PKGNAME (either by depending on it
> directly, or by depending on something that does). Now, this still won't get
> you a full answer, because it won't show you all the Automatically Installed
> packages that will be removed, but it will give you a starting point for
> understanding what's going on.
>

Thanks for correcting me Martin. Yes, you are right. We need the -r
flag for this use case.

raju
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Thread

JACK Audio Connection Kit Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 19:40 +0100
  Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-15 21:00 +0100
  Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2016-11-16 12:10 +0100
  Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 05:40 +0100
    Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 08:10 +0100
      Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2016-11-22 11:10 +0100
        Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 14:00 +0100
      Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-22 14:10 +0100
  Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-11-22 11:10 +0100

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