[packagekit] Keep trace of dilectly installed packages

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Sat Jun 6 06:29:04 PDT 2009


On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Mounir Lamouri<mounir.lamouri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mounir Lamouri<mounir.lamouri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So, get-depends is essentialy to _see_ depends before installing them...
>>
>> Exactly, to give the user a chance to agree/disagree to the larger package set.
> So what is the use cases of get_depends with and without recursive ?

With recursive allows you to say "what depends on this, including deps
of deps" and without allows you to see what has a 1st level
dependency, i.e. what depends on the package, but not deps of the
second package.

Richard.


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