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Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Tue Jun 5 16:43:07 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:02:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>  On Jun 4, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
> 
> > This is probably due to the new structure of xorg. On my system, mplayer
> > now depenws on 104 other ports (pkg_info -rx mplayer|grep Dependency:|wc 
> > -l).
> 
>  Some dependencies will be counted multiple times that way, try
> 
>    pkg_info -rx mplayer|grep Dependency:| sort | uniq | wc -l

I still get 104.

>  I don't have mplayer on my system so I can't check that particular one, but 
>  here's another example
> 
>   $ pkg_info -rx docproj | grep '^Depend'  | wc -l
>       143
>   $ pkg_info -rx docproj | grep '^Depend'  | sort | uniq | wc -l
>        57

Don't have that one. But mozilla gives 100 dependencies both ways.

>  I really have no idea of how the pkg database works so I don't know whether 
>  it treats those duplications wisely.

I think your database has old dependencies lying around.

Roland
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