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From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <acaudel@gt.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Package dependencies
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:26:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452C8EB3.9020608@gt.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610110701.19399.bo.andresen@zlin.dk>

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:13, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>> I have seen it mentioned here several times that "equery depends ..." is
>> broken.  Is there a good way to determine package dependency?
> 
> This shows all dependencies required for $pkg:
> 
> # emerge -pve $pkg
> 
> For an alternative you may have a look at app-portage/udept.
> 

Maybe I meant reverse dependency. Not sure.  I want to know what depends
on a particular package so that I can decide whether I can delete it or not.

Tony

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-11  4:13 [gentoo-user] Package dependencies Anthony E. Caudel
2006-10-11  5:01 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-11  6:26   ` Anthony E. Caudel [this message]
2006-10-11  6:47     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-10-11 10:09       ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-16 18:59 [gentoo-user] package dependencies Nick Smith
2006-02-16 19:13 ` Ghaith Hachem
2006-02-16 19:33   ` Nick Smith
2006-02-16 19:40     ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-02-16 19:13 ` gentuxx

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