finding which apps use a given port
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Fri Aug 29 18:57:07 UTC 2008
Zbigniew Szalbot writes:
> For a long time there has been a problem with posix-something port (as
> reported by portaudit) and I do not see an update to this particular
> port. How would I go about checking which ports/applications use this
> particular posix port? I am tempted to remove it but need to check why
> it is there in first place...
pkg_info -R <port_name>
This assumes you have it installed. If not, you can try
grepping the ports tree ... which can get messy if many ports depend
on it.
Robert Huff
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