[dapper] 'finger' reverse dependencies

[Florian Diesch]

Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 03:45:50PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> > Can someone explain to me why the following packages all
>> > depend on 'finger'?
> [snip]
>> what makes you think they do ?  apt-cache rdepends finger does only show
>> gnome-nettool (which is pretty reasonable if you provide a finger GUI)
>> from your list.
>
> 'apt-cache rdepends finger' gives me the following:
>
> finger
> Reverse Depends:
>   fingerd
>   finger-ldap
>   efingerd
>   education-common
>   lbdb
>   gnome-nettool
>   acpi-support
>
> So acpi-support depends directly on finger. Then other
> things depend directly on acpi-support; all those indirect
> dependencies would also be removed if I removed finger.

/usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs uses finger to find the user for
a given X display





   Florian
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