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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:46:08 +0900
From:      Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade: how the heck do i know which dependency
Message-ID:  <E17zY1I-000Ge4-00@roam.psg.com>
References:  <E17zXV0-000Fqb-00@roam.psg.com> <20021010071938.GW81796@vectors.cx> <E17zXkO-000Mob-00@roam.psg.com> <20021010074026.GX81796@vectors.cx>

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> /usr/ports/INDEX shows all the ports that each port depends upon.
> grep "^libglade" /usr/ports/INDEX
> it's in alphabetical order. gnomecore doesn't show up.
> grep "^gnomecore" /usr/ports/INDEX
> libglade shows up.
> 
> even easier is to read the pkg-descr files, figure out what each one
> does, and then deduce the answer. or read each port's Makefile. there's
> more than one way to skin a developer.

cool.  thanks.

i had been assuming that portsdb and pkgdb did the equivalent of that.

randy


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