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

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Daniel Pielmeier<daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>  writes:

>> 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 ;)


I realise when you've been debugging for a while you're brain may get a 
bit frazzled, but if you looked at `man emerge` you would find the answer.

In sympathy, here are the relevant parts:

SYNOPSIS
  emerge [options]  [action] [ebuild | tbz2file | file | @set | atom]
...
  atom   An atom describes bounds on a package that you wish to  install.
         See  portage(5)  for  the  details on atom syntax.  For example,
         >=dev-lang/python-2.2.1-r2
...

  --depclean
---
           Use  --depclean  together  with
         --verbose to show reverse dependencies.

Now, I have to leave you with something to do to find the _exact_ syntax 
in your situation :)

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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