Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Jason Kim <jkim@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Broken world upgrades
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:52:33
Message-Id: 200412011352.26571.jkim@advance.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Broken world upgrades by Kerin Millar
1 On Wednesday 01 December 2004 09:57, Kerin Millar wrote:
2 > course (which is no bad thing, IMO). There are a few tools to determine
3 > reverse dependencies available, but I find them inadequate when compared
4 > to "dep" which is available here:
5 > http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/my-bin/dep. Use the -r parameter to
6 > list reverse dependencies for a named package.
7
8 Thanks, I have been looking for something exactly like this. I've been hoping
9 for an 'official' program, either as part of portage or gentoolkit... Anyone
10 know if there are plans to do this? One of the biggest complaints I get from
11 people I'm introducing to gentoo are the incomplete/unconsolidated tools
12 (qpkg, equery, revdep-rebuild, etc).
13 -JayKim