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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