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

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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 ;)