great, Helmut (and Neil), that was exactly what I was looking for! :) thanks,
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Helmut Jarausch < jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Helmut Jarausch > > Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik > RWTH - Aachen University > D 52056 Aachen, Germany > > -- Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]
