showing dependency trees

[Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)]

25.08.2009 01:26, Björn Persson wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Björn Persson wrote:
>>> I want to check whether a package drags in other packages
>>> unnecessarily.
>> define "unnecessarily"?
>
> When you're forced to install package A to be able to install package E even
> though E doesn't use any of the functionality that A provides.
>
> For example, Michael Schwendt demonstrated that ktorrent pulls in qt-mysql,
> which in turn depends on mysql-libs. That's OK if Ktorrent can actually do
> something that results in queries to a MySQL database. Otherwise it drags in
> the MySQL client libraries unnecessarily – that is, I should be allowed to
> install Ktorrent without installing the MySQL client libraries.
Gold words! I think likewise too!