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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