reverse-depends(1)

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✨ reverse-depends(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the reverse-depends era 💅 it's a General Commands Manual page, and it's literally about finding out who depends on you (or your build deps). main character energy fr fr.

🌸 NAME 🌸

reverse-depends — list the reverse-dependencies (or build-dependencies) of a package 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

reverse-depends [options] package

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically: it lists the reverse-dependencies (or build-dependencies) of package.

And here's the cute little plot twist 💖 — if the package name is prefixed with src:, then it lists the reverse-dependencies of all the binary packages that the specified source package builds. like, the whole squad, not just one. no cap.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -r RELEASE, --release=RELEASE — query dependencies in RELEASE. default is the current development release. 🗓️
  • -R, --without-recommends — only consider Depends relationships, not Recommends. keeping it strict bestie 😤
  • -s, --with-suggests — also consider Suggests relationships. now we're being thorough ✨
  • -b, --build-depends — query build dependencies. it's a synonym for --arch=source. two names, one vibe 💅
  • -a ARCH, --arch=ARCH — query dependencies in ARCH. besides valid architecture names, the special values any and source may be used. any displays all reverse dependencies, the union across all architecture. source displays build dependencies. default: any. 🌈
  • -c COMPONENT, --component=COMPONENT — only consider reverse-dependencies in COMPONENT. can be specified multiple times (yes, stack them, go off 👑). default: all components.
  • -l, --list — display a simple, machine-readable list. for when you're feeding it to a script and not a human 🤖
  • -u URL, --service-url=URL — reverse Dependencies web-service URL. default is UbuntuWire's service at http://qa.ubuntuwire.org/rdepends/. 🔗
  • -h, --help — display a help message and exit. the classic escape hatch 🚪

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

all reverse dependencies of source package bash:

reverse-depends src:bash

look at her go 🐚✨

💜 AUTHORS 💜

reverse-depends and this manpage were written by Stefano Rivera <stefanor@ubuntu.com>.

both are released under the terms of the ISC License. periodt. 📜

okay that's the whole page bestie, hope it slayed 💖 this was ubuntu-dev-tools, the November 2011 era — yes she's vintage, and yes she still eats 🎀🦋

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