Bug 4433 – enhancement of gentoolkit: new application 'depfind'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description phoen][x 2002-07-02 11:40:36 UTC]

i always wondered about that: how are you able to see which packages depend on
foo. fex, which packages depend on xmms. so we (IRC geeks) started to write a
simple script - i'll attach it to this bug. 

It would be nice to have this functionality in qpkg itself.

-phoen][x-

[Comment 1 phoen][x 2002-07-02 11:41:02 UTC]

Created attachment 1920 [details]
depfind

[Comment 2 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2002-07-03 18:08:55 UTC]

Brandon, mind rolling this feature into qpkg ? I don't want another script, with
separate versioning and man page to maintain, if at all possible.

[Comment 3 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-07-03 21:17:28 UTC]

problem with this method is that it only finds packages which explicitly
depend... I will however add this simple functionality to qpkg for those that
are interested.

[Comment 4 phoen][x 2002-07-04 02:47:29 UTC]

I could also do it myself. Will catch you guys later today in #gentoo-dev.

-phoen][x-

[Comment 5 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-07-12 18:55:06 UTC]

I've done some nice stuff with this and will be adding it to gentoolkit... 
shortly :) please check out http://gentoo.lostlogicx.com/qpkg.new to see the 
new option -q --query-deps in action :)  The bloody man page needs fixing... i 
also need to do that other dependency checking script's man page... I need a 
man page writing monkey.

[Comment 6 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2002-07-14 17:57:40 UTC]

latest gentoolkit has it.