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Cc: Dino Vliet <dino_vliet@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: simple question...how to show packages which depend upon
 a	particular port
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Dino Vliet wrote:
> 
>> I'm almost ashamed to ask this BUT I really don't know
>> how to find the packages which depend upon a
>> particular port.
> 
> pkg_info -R port-name-\*
> 
> (-r does the inverse, packages on which port-name depends)
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 

Also, if you're into gui things, gpkgdep is pretty handy as it will show 
you the whole dependency tree rather than just the first level dependencies.

HTH,
Micah