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| author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2015-07-16 11:15:25 +0200 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2015-08-10 17:27:58 +0200 |
| commit | 8c7af4d4c95d0423fbd0f3baa979792504f4f45f (patch) | |
| tree | 545fdadc93065512092790b9517b77e4501151e8 /doc | |
| parent | dfe66c72ffc010e019e96b35154e1ad4ab506a6e (diff) | |
hide implicit deps in apt-cache again by default
Before MultiArch implicits weren't a thing, so they were hidden by
default by definition. Adding them for MultiArch solved many problems,
but having no reliable way of detecting which dependency (and provides)
is implicit or not causes problems everytime we want to output
dependencies without confusing our observers with unneeded
implementation details.
The really notworthy point here is actually that we keep now a better
record of how a dependency came to be so that we can later reason about
it more easily, but that is hidden so deep down in the library internals
that change is more the problems it solves than the change itself.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-cache.8.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index a9f6c8da2..e20f66770 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -281,12 +281,23 @@ Reverse Provides: <term><option>--no-breaks</option></term> <term><option>--no-replaces</option></term> <term><option>--no-enhances</option></term> - <listitem><para>Per default the <literal>depends</literal> and - <literal>rdepends</literal> print all dependencies. This can be tweaked with + <listitem><para>Per default the <command>depends</command> and + <command>rdepends</command> print all dependencies. This can be tweaked with these flags which will omit the specified dependency type. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Show<replaceable>DependencyType</replaceable></literal> e.g. <literal>APT::Cache::ShowRecommends</literal>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry><term><option>--implicit</option></term> + <listitem><para>Per default <command>depends</command> and <command>rdepends</command> + print only dependencies explicitly expressed in the metadata. With this flag + it will also show dependencies implicitely added based on the encountered data. + A <literal>Conflicts: foo</literal> e.g. expresses implicitely that this package + also conflicts with the package foo from any other architecture. + Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::ShowImplicit</literal>. + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>-f</option></term><term><option>--full</option></term> <listitem><para>Print full package records when searching. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::ShowFull</literal>.</para></listitem> |