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From: Jean-Michel Smith <jsmith@kcco.com>
To: Bastian Fuchs <bastiaf@gmx.de>, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:39:47 -0500
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:40 am, Bastian Fuchs wrote:
> Hello!
> Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example tha=
t
> emerge warns you, if you want to uninstall X, but KDE needs X.

The depends script, and 'qpkg -q' (gentoolkit) both give you this, at lea=
st in=20
as far as you can audit the reverse dependencies of the package you are a=
bout=20
to remove or 'clean'.

I find both useful; they present similar information, but in a different=20
format.  qpkg -q is great for tracing out the reverse depends of a partic=
ular=20
package, while depends is great for getting an overall picture of what=20
packages are missing their dependencies, if any.

Jean.