Cleaning up port dependencies

[Alexander Portnoy]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:22:56 +0800
Nick Kraal <nick at arc.net.my> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Running 'portupgrade -a' religiously to automatically update all 
> installed installed ports, I have started to notice duplicates in 
> certain installed applications. Most likely due to dependencies.
> 
> %pkg_info
> ...
> ruby-1.6.8.2004.07.28 An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
> ruby-1.8.2.p2_1       An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
> tk-8.3.5_5          Graphical toolkit for TCL
> tk-8.4.7,2          Graphical toolkit for TCL
> libtool-1.3.5_2     Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
> libtool-1.5.10      Generic shared library support script (version 1.5)
> 
> Is there a way to check on whether dependencies on the earlier version 
> still exist. Or perhaps I have deleted a port that does not need that 
> port version any more. Just some housekeeping here.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> "pkg_info -r <pkg_name>"
> -nick/


Try to use "pkg_info -r <pkg_name>" and "pkg_info -R <pkg_name>" to see the dependencies.
I am not sure that this will work for build dependences like libtool, but this work for regular run
dependencies:

$ pkg_info -rR gtk-2.4.13 
Information for gtk-2.4.13:

Depends on:
Dependency: expat-1.95.8
Dependency: freetype2-2.1.7_3
Dependency: perl-5.8.5
Dependency: jpeg-6b_3
Dependency: libiconv-1.9.2_1
Dependency: png-1.2.7
Dependency: pkgconfig-0.15.0_1
Dependency: imake-6.7.0_2
Dependency: fontconfig-2.2.3,1
Dependency: gettext-0.13.1_1
Dependency: libxml2-2.6.16
Dependency: xorg-libraries-6.7.0_3
Dependency: tiff-3.7.0_2
Dependency: xorg-fonts-encodings-6.7.0
Dependency: bitstream-vera-1.10
Dependency: glib-2.4.7
Dependency: shared-mime-info-0.15
Dependency: xorg-fonts-truetype-6.7.0
Dependency: libXft-2.1.6
Dependency: hicolor-icon-theme-0.5
Dependency: pango-1.6.0
Dependency: atk-1.8.0
Required by:
emelfm2-0.0.9_1
gconf2-2.8.1
gftp-2.0.18.r1_1
gimp-2.0.6_1,1
gnomevfs2-2.8.3_1
gqview-1.4.5_1
gtk-engines2-2.2.0_5
librsvg2-2.8.1_1
mozilla-1.7.3_3,2
openoffice-2.0
pgadmin3-1.0.2_1
sylpheed-gtk2-0.9.99.20041024_1
vim-gtk2-6.3.16
wxgtk2-common-devel-2.5.2_1
wxgtk2-contrib-common-devel-2.5.2_1
wxgtk2-unicode-contrib-devel-2.5.2_1
wxgtk2-unicode-devel-2.5.2_1