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What uses this?

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A curiosity question. In the updates today was mariadb. "MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and ease of use. This package includes the client library.
This update contains 2 packages: libmariadbclient18 mariadb-common"

Is there a way for the user to learn what application(s) is using this? Some sort of command line query perhaps?
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I'm not on a Debian distro ATM, so I can't check this... but from memory apt rdepends <package to check> or apt-cache rdepends <package to check>
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the above post gives the terminal command. But on my install of 18.2 mate. mariadb is not installed. It's a data base program and should not need updating unless you've got some sort of database server in use.
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You can also try to remove a package in synaptic and see what else it wants to remove, i.e., the packages which depend on it.
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kc1di wrote:the above post gives the terminal command. But on my install of 18.2 mate. mariadb is not installed. It's a data base program and should not need updating unless you've got some sort of database server in use.
This is what I see:

jim@jim-MS-7817 ~ $ apt-cache rdepends mariadb
E: No packages found
jim@jim-MS-7817 ~ $ apt rdepends mariadb
E: No packages found
jim@jim-MS-7817 ~ $
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Flemur wrote:You can also try to remove a package in synaptic and see what else it wants to remove, i.e., the packages which depend on it.

Not much to go on. Just two items showing as installed.

MariaDB common metapackage

MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and
ease of use.

This empty metapackage makes the introduction on MariaDB specific
configurationfiles easier at any later time.

and

MariaDB database client library

MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and
ease of use.

This package includes the client library.
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