freebsd stable - Dec 2011 - "required by"?

Hello guys!

I got a question concerning dependencies.. Is there a method to check what 
depends on a given port? What do I have to do to check what depends on - 
say - gconf? I know that there's a way to check what gconf depends on (via 
checking freshports.org for example), but what about the other way around?

Thanks in advance,
greetings from Cologne,
1126!

On 12/21/2011 1:30 PM, 1126 wrote:
> Hello guys!
> 
> I got a question concerning dependencies.. Is there a method to check
> what depends on a given port? What do I have to do to check what depends
> on - say - gconf? I know that there's a way to check what gconf depends
> on (via checking freshports.org for example), but what about the other
> way around?

Try pkg_info -r and -R

eg
 pkg_info -R m4-1.4.16,1
Information for m4-1.4.16,1:

Required by:
autoconf-2.68
automake-1.11.1
bison-2.4.3,1


# pkg_info -r automake-1.11.1
Information for automake-1.11.1:

Depends on:
Dependency: perl-threaded-5.14.1_3
Dependency: m4-1.4.16,1
Dependency: automake-wrapper-20101119
Dependency: autoconf-wrapper-20101119
Dependency: autoconf-2.68

Another way is described at

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-finding-applications.html

	---Mike


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Once you have a port installed, "pkg_info -R gconf\*" will tell you.

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