Re: [gentoo-user] restrictive equery depends

[Helmut Jarausch]

On 28 Jan, Crístian Viana wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there any way I could search for packages that depend on a specific
> ebuild version? for example, I want to find out what packages depend exactly
> on virtual/jdk:1.5 (and not virtual/jdk:1.4 nor virtual/jdk-1.6). if I do
> this search:
>
> $ equery depends virtual/jdk:1.5
>
> it will show me all packages that virtual/jdk:1.5 satisfies, but I need the
> packages that depend only on that version (or slot, in this case).
>
> this would be useful because I may have both versions of Java installed, but
> I just want to have the latest version (1.6), so I need to find out what
> packages are pulling the older version.
>

Hi,

take Neil Bothwick's swiss army knife :

emerge -vp --depclean virtual/jdk:1.5

(it's a special case of emerge, showing which packages have pulled in
 the package given on the command line.)

Thanks Neil!

Helmut.


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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany