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 1KzC33-00040o-NG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:17:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFA46E0278; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C200E0278 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:17:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so194135ugs.39 for ; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:17:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=y6VBWu+MKaBndbLg1Hq8RkQpVnOS+0LkRWWEOvagNBE=; b=W8Yj2xsJwjHujbo5jgoxg8/bOq585EQDOpyTEkRIyqIg44LxHxXLhZQ8uEnaZNePX9 Yie+2eSIRKLV3VQZTwp+crs97ghxi6cEVROTxnSELyM/Cs6P23EA0FE9KDGRss0cSKvy 3ZOTMZnhRG1fPJ0YX+Mk6M7d17xduodxb41kg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=mivsvp2iRXWZb/UordaP9lgn6tsuY0dcqmvJVRaP5jAtnAqycmS/V5huk+GtOjUklU j8E7v/uRdxdAXlbBiAo8jEqQkrsdqRBwXFXyc9X7R9rCgMcPW0YR8uuHRp3ERhFhUXnZ kOs4R8Buuvq+nWK80dO3ALAVyHVbHL/z6Rrn4= Received: by 10.67.20.11 with SMTP id x11mr1260019ugi.68.1226243875422; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:17:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.5? (dsl-243-211-235.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.211.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p32sm2330029ugc.57.2008.11.09.07.17.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:17:53 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Showing "reverse" dependencies Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 17:17:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20081109035123.GA6165@solfire> <200811090813.41645.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200811091241.04844.markos.chandras@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811091241.04844.markos.chandras@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: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811091717.43826.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: e6b46a35-338a-4766-ae72-5c3d71b6c625 X-Archives-Hash: 4ad5f5e71ed4e0bbe2c87f5fee8ea513 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 > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-l, --depends =A0 =A0 =A0(default) List dependencies o= f PACKAGE > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-L, --rev-depends =A0List reverse dependencies of PACK= AGE > > 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=20 can't comment on whether it works well or not. equery on the other hand, is known to give accurate answers to a question t= he=20 user normally did not ask. i.e. it doesn't really do what users wish it did. =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com