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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-07-16 11:15:25 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-08-10 17:27:58 +0200
commit8c7af4d4c95d0423fbd0f3baa979792504f4f45f (patch)
tree545fdadc93065512092790b9517b77e4501151e8 /doc
parentdfe66c72ffc010e019e96b35154e1ad4ab506a6e (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.
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-rw-r--r--doc/apt-cache.8.xml15
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>