I always get confused on the actions "deps" and "dependents". The path you were on "port echo depends:perl5.12" would tell you all the ports (installed or not) that depend on perl5.12. But for just installed ports, you can do this:
port dependents perl5.12 See http://guide.macports.org/#using.port.dependents Derek On Apr 21, 2013, at 8:51 PM, SH Development wrote: > I am trying to find which of my installed ports is dependent on perl5.12 > > Every time I try to do a port upgrade outdated, it wants to reinstall > perl5.12 which messes up the install of perl5.16. > > Is there a command to do this without having to go through all my installed > ports one at a time with > > port echo depends:apache2 > > and so on and so on...? > > > SH > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
