On Jun 4, 2021, 11:55 AM -0500, Christopher Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>, 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to get a list of all the ports that depend on a given port, boost. I 
> have been using this
>
> port echo depends:boost
Oh so close:

port echo rdepends:boost
> as per
>
> https://guide.macports.org/chunked/using.common-tasks.html
> to do this, but just noticed it is not just include ports that depend on 
> ‘boost’, but ports that depend on any port which has boost in its name. e.g. 
> it is incorrectly listing  py39-scikit-hep-hist which does not depend on 
> boost, but py39-scikit-hep-boost-histogram.
>
> The guide seems to infer the above should only give exact matches, so is this 
> a bug in base, or am I mis-understanding ?
>
> cheers Chris

Marius
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Marius Schamschula

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