Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 19:04:32 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple&silly wish to know port dependency. Message-ID: <200310311904.32889.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <3FA32C52.5040906@hotmail.com> References: <3FA32C52.5040906@hotmail.com>
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On Saturday 01 November 2003 03:45, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. When I make deinstall a port I often get the message: > port xxx depends on this port, but I'll still deinstall it anyway. > > That's really frustrating. I'd like to be able to know who depends on it > before de-installing it. Any suggestions? > > Look through the handbook I didn't find an answer. Look into the Makefile. There is likely a line starting with BUILD_DEPENDS and one with RUN_DEPENDS. What follows these variable names are lists of files the program depends on, and (separated with a colon) the port that must be installed to get it. Daniela
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