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On 1/5/07, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> The dependencies themselves are stored as @pkgdep lines in the
> /var/db/pkg/packagename/+CONTENTS file.  The reverse link is stored in
> /var/db/pkg/packagename/+REQUIRED_BY .  You can list the dependencies
> with the "pkg_info -r packagename" command, and the packages that
> require a package with "pkg_info -R packagename".

Great, thanks.

Mike
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