Package dependency question (on SuSE-10.2)

[Michael ODonnell]

...and IIRC deborphan has also been around for a while:

 NAME
        deborphan - Orphaned package finder

 SYNOPSIS
        deborphan [OPTION]...  [PACKAGE]...

 DESCRIPTION
        deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them.
        The default operation is to search only within the libs and
        oldlibs sections to hunt down unused libraries.

        If it is invoked with an optional list of packages, only the
        dependencies on those packages will be checked.  The results are
        printed to stdout as if the option --show-deps had been given.
        Searching for specific packages will show the package, regardless
        of its priority.  It is possible to specify -, to read a list of
        packages from standard input.

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