On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Arno Gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear list, > > I did some spring home cleaning today among my installed packages. > I wanted to remove one package, but be sure first to know which packages > were depending on the one I wanted to remove. > I then went to the pacman wiki, and read the following command would do > the job : $whoneeds packagename. > A quick tour on #archlinux IRC gave me this anser for same result: > $pactree -r packagename. > > Is there any reason to use "whoneeds" command more than "pactree -r" ? As > pactree is already installed, I do not see the need to install a new > package for same result. > > Not a big deal, but just curiousity. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=131244 :-)
