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[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hmmm..
>
> Reverse dependencies could be a computationally expensive operation :D ... Well, once there are thousands of packages.
>
> Is there a really useful case for that? Really?

Yes. If you're a library it might be useful to know which stuff depends on you.

Debian supports it.

> Version is taken care of in the package canonicalization I specified:    [repo:]name[-MM.NN][.RR][.BB]

That allows you to install a specific version. But maybe one user
wants to track beta versions, or even alpha versions.

> I have to do some proof-of-concept work before I get to per-user/portable/cloud install (I suspect they may be very similar to each other.)


Olaf