On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:55:45 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:29:42 +0000 (UTC), Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > >> > That was useful and saved me the time to sed & grep my way through the >> > equery output. Turning this into a generic script is easy enough. >> >> For the peanut gallery.. >> >> Turns out it's not so clear-cut since equery d finds *all possible* >> dependants, including those for unset USE flags. >> >> Oh well..depclan & grep here we go.. >> > What's wrong with qdepends, which has an option to query reverse > dependencies and uses the installed package databas for its information > so it correctly considers USE flags? > > qdepends is part f portage-utils, which you should have installed already.
Interesting! It seems there is nothing wrong with it other than the fact that I didn't know about it, so thanks for the pointer! qdepends -Q does indeed seem to do the same thing as my own script, which of course I finished just 5 minutes ago. :) It's also a lot faster than --depclean munging since it seems to simply grep through the DEPEND/USE variables in one go. Nice! Thanks! Holger