Hi Ryan,
On Jan 10 14:20:21, [email protected] wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2018, at 14:03, Jan Stary wrote:
> >
> > $ port installed depends:libressl
> > None of the specified ports are installed.
>
> This result means: of the ports that specify a dependency containing the
> substring "libressl", you don't have any installed.
OK, what is the right way to ask port(1)
"which of my currently installed ports
do depend on the installed libressl"?
Jan
> I have not looked at the code but it seems to me that at port install time,
> MacPorts records in the registry for that port its list of dependencies. If a
> dependency is specified in path: style, and maybe also if it is specified in
> bin: or lib: style, then the dependency that is recorded is the port that is
> currently providing the specified file.
>
> So since libressl was the port providing $prefix/lib/libssl.dylib at the time
> that you installed e.g. lynx, libressl is recorded as a dependency of lynx in
> your registry.
