Tracing build dependencies

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 04:53:51PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 01:43:02PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 April 2004 01:19 pm, Jim Trigg wrote:
> > > I remember seeing come across one of the FreeBSD lists (either ports,
> > > stable, or questions) a shell script to show build dependencies of
> > > installed ports (for use in determining whether installed ports are
> > > orphans or not), but cannot now find it (either in my saved mail, in
> > > the list archives, or through a web search).  Does anyone have such a
> > > script?
> > 
> > Look at pkg_cutleaves. There are a number of others in ../sysutils. I 
> > followed the thread and installed it and pkg_tree.
> 
> Unfortunately, it only looks in the pkgdb, which does not track build
> dependencies (only RUN_DEPENDS and LIB_DEPENDS).

By definition build dependencies are not needed once the package is
built and installed, and can be removed at any later time.

Kris
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