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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Which package installed which dependency?
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 12:24:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86blklav4j.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imet8ul9.fsf@dustycloud.org>

Dear,

On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 20:06, Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I remembered such a feature existing but now I can't
> find it.
>
> I have a system configuration, and alarmingly I see it building PHP.
> PHP???  What on earth in this system configuration needs PHP?
>
> I'd love to see some sort of tree, or blame feature, that would allow me
> to see "oh yeah, that's how the php got in there".
>
> Does such a feature exist?

You could be interested by "guix graph --path" which returns the
shortest path (graph meaning) from package A to package PHP.

Hope that helps,
simon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-12 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-12  0:06 Which package installed which dependency? Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-12  0:19 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-12  9:31   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-07-12 10:24 ` zimoun [this message]
2020-07-12 11:10   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-07-12 11:43     ` Julien Lepiller
2020-07-12 13:06       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-07-12 13:42         ` zimoun

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