purescript / purescript/spago

Output the reason why package/module was installed

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Since Oct 14, 2023.

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Description

There should be a way to know why a package/module was installed (downloaded) showing which packages depend on it.

We could add an argument to spago ls deps , so e.g. if you want to know all the transitive dependencies of halogen you'd do spago ls deps --transitive halogen

In other package managers there is API called why for example yarn why package-name.

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