Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all packages which depend on P : how to

["Randolph Maaßen" <r.maassen60@gmail.com>]

2014-02-20 13:38 GMT+01:00 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a very simple question. How to emerge (update) all packages which
> depend on some
> given package P.
>
> I've tried
>
> emerge -uv1 `equery -q d P`
>
> or  emerge -uv1 `qdepends -q -Q P`
>
> but both commands (equery and qdepends) generate a list with the version
> attached like
>   app-editors/kile-2.1.3
> which emerge doesn't like (unless there is an '= in front of each name)
>
> Is there an easy way to do so without resorting to shell/python scripting?
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut
>

Hi, I just had a look on eix and figured out that "eix --deps -# -I P"
lists all packages in short for that are installed and have P in their
dependency variables plus the package itself.

Hope to help



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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Randolph Maaßen