On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>>>> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in
>>>>> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable?
>>>> I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null
>>>> output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give
>>>> false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend.
>>>
>>> Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> emerge -pv --depclean atom
>
> I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show
> massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to
> some specific package.
>
> Maybe a little more detail would keep my little pea brain from smoking
> under the load ;)
Why did you not simply try, you lazy fat SUV owner?
Here, I'll do it for you. But I imagine if this will not spoil you even more.
$ emerge -pv --depc ffmpeg
Calculating dependencies ... done!
media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326 pulled in by:
media-sound/sox-14.2.0
media-video/ffmpeg2theora-0.22
net-libs/opal-2.2.11
net-www/gnash-0.8.4
>>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
Packages installed: 577
Packages in world: 134
Packages in system: 50
Unique package names: 577
Required packages: 575
Number to remove: 0
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