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From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: how to distinguish direct/indirect requirements?
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On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:49:35AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Is there a way to discriminate direct dependencies fro indirect
> ones, except from reading every single Makefile? (and knowing
> to full extent what USE_GNOME and similar lines really do take
> in as deps)

You can cd some/port/&&make depends, but personally, I've also
always thought that the difference between direct and indirect
dependencies should be embedded in the package system.