On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:57:04 -0500 Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 04:16 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:00:23 -0500 Matthew Cline > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | You can use qpkg to find those packages that depend upon another: > > > > Not for system targets. > > Then what does the following mean? Is it unreliable? > > sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 > DEPENDED ON BY: > app-arch/rpm-4.2 > dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r5 > dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 > mail-mta/postfix-2.1.5-r2 > sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5 > sys-libs/pam-0.77-r6 > > and on and on for all the installed versions.
What are you asking? if it is "do all of the following depend on db, or is this a mistake?" the answer is "yes they all depend on db" > > -- > "Wernher von Braun aimed for the stars . . . unfortunately, he hit London." > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
