When I run
port echo depends:vim
neovim-qt
p5-text-vimcolor
py-neovim
rails.vim
libvmaf
gutils-suite-core
mpvim
neovim-remote
nvimpager
vim2html
vimpager
dosfstools
(12 ports are listed)
But when I run
port echo rdepends:vim
dosfstools
gutils-suite
gutils-suite-core
gutils-suite-extra
libvmaf
mpvim
rails.vim
vim2html
vimpager
(9 ports are listed)
Another subtle semantic difference. The selectors that match against the
PortIndex do so as a regex. But for rdepends:, there isn't really any
sensible way to apply the same regex recursively, since the string you
want to match changes with each level of recursion. So it just does
exact string matching on the portname component of each depspec.
Due to depends: taking a regex that is matched on the raw PortIndex
fields, the way to get all ports that directly depend on vim is actually:
port echo 'depends::vim(\s|$)'
because the regex "vim" will match other ports like neovim and vimpager.
- Josh
