On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:32:42PM -0600, Peter Ziobrzynski wrote: > Is there a way to get the list of packages that depend on a package > (dependent packages) then doing grep through the /var/db/pkgs like that? > > cd /var/db/pkg > find . -name DEPEND | xargs grep avifile > > Unfortunately this only lists locally installed packages. > > The reverse operation for finding a list of dependent packages for a > package is provided with 'emerge --emptytree -p mozilla'. Is there > something like that for the first question?
[06:24 PM]wwong ~ $ equery belongs equery [ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0 (/usr/bin/equery) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0 (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre10/equery) [06:38 PM]wwong ~ $ equery depends avifile [ Searching for packages depending on avifile... ] [06:39 PM]wwong ~ $ equery depends ffmpeg [ Searching for packages depending on ffmpeg... ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.0.1-r3 (I don't have avifile installed) so... emerge gentoolkit run equery with no arguments to see what it can do. W -- Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but she can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 32 days, 1:42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
