setup graphical chooser : how to list orphaned packages ?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 14/10/2017 17:31, cyg Simple wrote:

>>
>> This is very common.  Suppose you have package A installed, which
>> requires B.  Package B gets obsoleted by C.  But A still requires B
>> until someone (usually the maintainer of A) changes this to make A
>> require C instead.
>>
> 
> Maybe a column showing what installed packages are depending on B and a
> column showing the dependencies for package A would be nice?  It would
> help clear the confusion anyway.


the cygcheck-dep package can provide dependencies information,
I do not see the need for setup to do it

regards
Marco


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