jerome@tama ~ $ epm --query --whatrequires perl perl-5.8.6-r4 jerome@tama ~ $ epm --query --requires epm epm-0.8.8 jerome@tama ~ $ ...i was expecting a bit more. "equery depgraph epm" returns much much more. i am mainly concerned with the --whatrequires option, since i haven't located any tool for Gentoo/portage which can give me that kind of information. Thanks in advance ?
Note in the help output: '*' leading an option indicates not-yet-implemented $ epm --help EPM version 0.8.8 Copyright (C) 2001-2003 - Aron Griffis This program may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 '*' leading an option indicates not-yet-implemented ... *--whatprovides <cap> - query packages which provide <cap> capability *--whatrequires <cap> - query packages which require <cap> capability ... *--provides - list capabilities package provides *-R, --requires - list package dependencies I think providing this information would be great, but it's not easy. Are you interested in helping with a patch?
Probably won't ever add this to epm, unless somebody steps up to provide the patch
