Re: [gentoo-user] Showing "reverse" dependencies

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 09 November 2008 12:41:04 Markos Chandras wrote:
> > 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

Interesting command. I didn't even know of it till I read your post, so I 
can't comment on whether it works well or not.

equery on the other hand, is known to give accurate answers to a question the 
user normally did not ask. i.e. it doesn't really do what users wish it did.

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