Hello,
j...@jsg.id.au (Jonathan Gray), 2020.08.23 (Sun) 08:58 (CEST):
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 08:15:01AM +0200, Matthias wrote:
> > How do I figure out which packages directly or indirectly depend on a
> > specific package? Let's assume that only installed packages shall be
> > considered.
> >
> > For example, if 'glib2' is the package in question, 'cairo',
> > 'gdk-pixbuf', 'shared-mime-info', 'ImageMagick', etc. should be returned
> > as all those depend on 'glib2'.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> This is really a question for ports@
>
> One way would be to install databases/sqlports then run
> 'show-reverse-deps devel/glib2'
I thought Matthias was just asking for "pkg_info -R".
("Show which packages require a given package")
Marcus
