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Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:04:02 -0600
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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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 <package name> .  That's if I
understand correctly.  If you don't have it, emerge gentoolkit.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)