From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kz7jP-0001RI-3U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:41:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25D4DE0234; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:41:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-out.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC71E0234 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-03.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mA9Ag16M015723; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:42:01 +0200 Received: from MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr (mx-in-01.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.23]) by mx-av-03.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mA9AfIU7007540; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:41:18 +0200 Received: from raptor.localnet (adsl206-156.kln.forthnet.gr [79.103.19.156]) by MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mA9Af5fH025756; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:41:06 +0200 Authentication-Results: MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr smtp.mail=markos.chandras@gmail.com; spf=neutral Authentication-Results: MX-IN-01.forthnet.gr header.from=markos.chandras@gmail.com; sender-id=neutral From: Markos Chandras To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Showing "reverse" dependencies Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:41:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.25-gentoo-r7; KDE/4.1.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Alan McKinnon References: <20081109035123.GA6165@solfire> <49166132.40506@gmail.com> <200811090813.41645.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811090813.41645.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811091241.04844.markos.chandras@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 97eb964d-b639-40bd-9708-49532e017de1 X-Archives-Hash: be1d3480e0f7ec6be3889937dd7e7ab3 On Sunday 09 November 2008 08:13:41 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 . 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. well , what about dep? from dep manpage -l, --depends (default) List dependencies of PACKAGE -L, --rev-depends List reverse dependencies of PACKAGE show try dep -l amarok and you will get amarok dependencies . Or try dep -L amarok and you will get the packages that depend on amarok Sorry If I understand your question wrong -- Markos Chandras