Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Showing "reverse" dependencies
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:03:52
Message-Id: 4916C38D.7000100@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Showing "reverse" dependencies by Markos Chandras
1 Markos Chandras schrieb am 09.11.2008 11:41:
2 > well , what about dep?
3 >
4 > from dep manpage
5 >
6 > -l, --depends (default) List dependencies of PACKAGE
7 > -L, --rev-depends List reverse dependencies of PACKAGE
8 >
9 > show try dep -l amarok and you will get amarok dependencies .
10 > Or try dep -L amarok and you will get the packages that depend on amarok
11 >
12 > Sorry If I understand your question wrong
13 >
14
15 dep is nice and it used to be a very powerful tool. Unfortunately it is
16 outdated and with more and more changes because of EAPI's and other
17 stuff it gets more and more useless because it can not handle this cases.
18
19 Regards,
20
21 Daniel

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