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On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:24:24 +0000
Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> wrote:


> To add to this idea:
> abyayala$ nix why-depends --help
> Usage: nix why-depends <FLAGS>... <PACKAGE> <DEPENDENCY>
>=20
> Summary: show why a package has another package in its closure.

[..]

> Would it be useful to have a guix package subcommand which replicates
> this?


Yeah, would be nice. Because that was missing, I created that script
for me.

Bj=C3=B6rn

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