simple question...how to show packages which depend upon a particular port

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Wed Nov 29 13:18:05 PST 2006


Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Dino Vliet wrote:
> 
>> I'm almost ashamed to ask this BUT I really don't know
>> how to find the packages which depend upon a
>> particular port.
> 
> pkg_info -R port-name-\*
> 
> (-r does the inverse, packages on which port-name depends)
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

Also, if you're into gui things, gpkgdep is pretty handy as it will show 
you the whole dependency tree rather than just the first level dependencies.

HTH,
Micah


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