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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Marius Amado-Alves <marius@amado-alves.info> writes:

>> In general terms, I was wondering if there is a way to determine after
>> I log onto a brand new VAX system what non-standard libraries are
>> available?
>
> Yes, I also feel that computers by now should be able to answer
> questions like that :-)
>
> On Mac and some others the approximations are Spotlight and Google
> Desktop (?) but on the VAX I dont know.

Debian has that, it is called:

sarge $ apt-cache rdepends libgnat-3.15p-1
etch $ apt-cache rdepends libgnat-4.1

or, use aptitude, synaptic or any other package browsing tool.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.