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 1L0UDY-00009W-Hn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:54:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AC9CCE0394; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out4.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63190E0394 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46AE37A573 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:53:56 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <491BB2C0.5090502@netspace.net.au> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:20 +0930 From: Iain Buchanan User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable References: <87prl0n21n.fsf@newsguy.com> <200811122312.32111.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87abc4mupp.fsf@newsguy.com> <491B5D4E.40608@googlemail.com> <87zlk4l16f.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87zlk4l16f.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b9e7ae62-df3f-4488-9f4b-143017dbb5fb X-Archives-Hash: 64ceeae2876712bc4cc788456f5c96de Harry Putnam wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier 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 A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.