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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 09:37:47AM -0600, J. Porter Clark wrote:
> How do you trace the dependencies?  I have found this uncommonly
> difficult.

make all-depends-list
make build-depends-list
make package-depends-list
make actual-package-depends
make run-depends-list
make pretty-print-build-depends-list
make pretty-print-run-depends-list

and

ports/ports-mgmt/pkg_tree

are pretty good places to start.

mcl