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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:16:00 -0800
From:      Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon a	particular port
Message-ID:  <456DF890.3020108@ywave.com>
In-Reply-To: <456DED57.90704@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <629233.82571.qm@web51109.mail.yahoo.com> <456DED57.90704@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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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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