Bug 4433

Summary:	enhancement of gentoolkit: new application 'depfind'
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	phoen][x <fisi.tilman.klar>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Brandon Low (RETIRED) <lostlogic>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	depfind

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2002-07-14 17:57:40 UTC

latest gentoolkit has it.