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From:	Peter Ziobrzynski <pzi@×××.net>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] howto list packages that depend on the package?
Date:	Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:56:33
Message-Id:	`43260437.6080007@pzi.net`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] howto list packages that depend on the package? by Peter Ziobrzynski

1	oops, I missed 'qpkg -q'. Ignore this....
2
3	Peter Ziobrzynski wrote:
4	> Is there a way to get the list of packages that depend on a package
5	> (dependent packages) then doing grep through the /var/db/pkgs like that?
6	>
7	> cd /var/db/pkg
8	> find . -name DEPEND \| xargs grep avifile
9	>
10	> Unfortunately this only lists locally installed packages.
11	>
12	> The reverse operation for finding a list of dependent packages for a
13	> package is provided with 'emerge --emptytree -p mozilla'. Is there
14	> something like that for the first question?
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17	Peter Ziobrzynski, mailto:pzi@×××.net
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