Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>>>>> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in
>>>>> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable?
>>>> I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null
>>>> output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give
>>>> false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend.
>>>
>>> Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> emerge -pv --depclean atom
>
> I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show
> massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to
> some specific package.
>
> Maybe a little more detail would keep my little pea brain from smoking
> under the load ;)
Why did you not simply try, you lazy fat SUV owner?
Here, I'll do it for you. But I imagine if this will not spoil you even more.

$ emerge -pv --depc ffmpeg

Calculating dependencies ... done!

  media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326 pulled in by:
    media-sound/sox-14.2.0
    media-video/ffmpeg2theora-0.22
    net-libs/opal-2.2.11
    net-www/gnash-0.8.4

>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
Packages installed:   577
Packages in world:    134
Packages in system:   50
Unique package names: 577
Required packages:    575
Number to remove:     0

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