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Subject: Re: How do I know what a meta port installs?
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On Thursday 31 March 2005 13:57, Per Berger wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I am running freebsd 5.3 RELEASE p5 and have installed several ports, so
> now I have X, gnome 2.10, firefox, openoffice and several other
> "goodies" installed. And most of it without a glitch! :-)
>
> However, I have a question... (Of course, why else bother the list?? ;-)
> )
>
> I have installed a couple of "meta" ports, for example gnome2. How can I
> see exactly which ports the meta port installs? I have tried to figure
> it out but failed...

cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-power-tools && make run-depends-list

also look at 

make pretty-print-run-depends-list

which is recursive. If your readmes are up to date you can see this in the 
README.html file