Getting a list of dependencies which have to be installed ?

[Chris Whitehouse]

Frank Staals wrote:
> Hey...,
> 
> Is there a utility to display the dependencies of a port which have yet 
> to be installed ? I know you can get a complete dependency list on 
> freebsd.org/ports , pkg_info -r or just looking in the files in the 
> ports dir. But is there a command to display only the dependencies which 
> haven't been installed on your system yet ? I also looked at pkg_add -n 
> but it immediately starts fetching the packages needed. I don't want to 
> start downloading the complete package just because I want a list of 
> ports I haven't installed yet.

Hi Frank,

It's not exactly what you want but at least it contains what you want: 
portmanager -s displays the status of each port including missing 
dependencies.

Chris