From: Brandon Low <lostlogic@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:47:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020718134701.A1128@lostlogicx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207181339.47904.jsmith@kcco.com>; from jsmith@kcco.com on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:39:47PM -0500
Just so yas know the depend script can be found at
http://gentoo.lostlogicx.com/depend Ssrit on IRC and myself wrote the
script, hopefully I'll get it into gentoolkit next week early. Let me
know about any bugs in qpkg -q or depend so I can fix them, thanks!
--Brandon
On Thu, 07/18/02 at 13:39:47 -0500, Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
> On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:40 am, Bastian Fuchs wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Are there plans to add reverse dependencies in Portage, for example that
> > 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 least in
> as far as you can audit the reverse dependencies of the package you are about
> to remove or 'clean'.
>
> I find both useful; they present similar information, but in a different
> format. qpkg -q is great for tracing out the reverse depends of a particular
> package, while depends is great for getting an overall picture of what
> packages are missing their dependencies, if any.
>
> Jean.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-18 15:40 [gentoo-dev] Reverse Dependencies Bastian Fuchs
2002-07-18 16:28 ` Brandon Low
2002-07-18 16:55 ` Hannes Mehnert
2002-07-18 18:39 ` Jean-Michel Smith
2002-07-18 18:47 ` Brandon Low [this message]
2002-07-18 18:48 ` Spider
2002-07-19 0:48 ` [gentoo-dev] " Mecho Puh
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