Finding Dependencies

[Fred Condo]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jerry <gesbbb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:16:19 +0000
> Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >man (1) pkg_info
> >
> >-r what the package depends on
> >-R what depends on the package
>
> It does not list any package that depends on it. I have no idea why it
> is being installed.

Try running this command to make sure all dependencies are correctly recorded:

# portmaster --check-depends

Portmaster is itself a (very lightweight) port: ports-mgmt/portmaster