Well I really think this needs to be documented more clearly. The examples
in the guide do not mention it is a regex rather than the exact name of a
port, and that is the only documentation I have seen on it.

David


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 17:14, David Strubbe wrote:
>
> > Ok, I think I see what is going on here: apparently "port installed
> depends:XXX" returns all ports depending on port XXX -- OR a port that
> contains the string XXX.
>
> It's a regular expression search. So if you want the ports that depend on
> gcr, you could use:
>
> $ port echo depends:':gcr($|\s)'
> empathy
> epiphany
> evolution-data-server
> gnome-keyring
> gnome-online-accounts
> gnome3-core
> libgdata
> seahorse
> $
>
>
>
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