What ports require this port?

Dominic Fandrey kamikaze at bsdforen.de
Mon Feb 7 16:31:24 UTC 2011


On 07/02/2011 03:01, b. f. wrote:
>> Over the weekend, a new feature was added to FreshPorts BETA.  A port
>> now lists all ports that require it.  This code will eventually move to
>> production after it's been running on on the beta site for a while.
>>
>> Notes:
>>
>> * The code uses the output of make -V RUN_DEPENDS -V LIB_DEPENDS -V
>> BUILD_DEPENDS
> 
> If you're going to include BUILD_DEPENDS, then you should also use -V
> PATCH_DEPENDS -V FETCH_DEPENDS.

Maybe it should be split into "The package requires" only listing the
INSTALL_DEPENDS and "The port requires" listing all dependencies.

Regards

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