From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Showing "reverse" dependencies
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:13:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811090813.41645.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49166132.40506@gmail.com>
On Sunday 09 November 2008 06:04:02 Dale wrote:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a way to list the package, which depend on
> > a given (known) package (in my case a library)?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Meino Cramer
>
> If I understand correctly, equery depends <package name> . That's if I
> understand correctly. If you don't have it, emerge gentoolkit.
Just be aware that equery depends is somewhat broken
It lists dependencies in the tree, not dependencies a specific machine is
using. Plus it doesn't find some valid deps either.
It's still useful, but the user also has to use eix to determine which deps
are valid for them and which are not.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-09 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-09 3:51 [gentoo-user] Showing "reverse" dependencies meino.cramer
2008-11-09 4:04 ` Dale
2008-11-09 6:13 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-11-09 10:11 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-11-09 10:41 ` Markos Chandras
2008-11-09 11:03 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-11-09 15:17 ` Alan McKinnon
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