[gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
Hello :) Is someone know an utility the search reverse dependencies of an ebuild ? Or which could find ebuild that an not in world file and depend to any ebuild installed on the gentoo box ? I know emerge depclean -pv, but it show me some packages that are in my world file, and I've tried it ,

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:29:17 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: Is someone know an utility the search reverse dependencies of an ebuild emerge gentoolkit qpkg -q somepackage equery depends somepackage qpkg is officially deprecated, but is *much* faster than equery for this particular task. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
Ok, but, it show me packages that depends on one package (just depend), and not packages that need the package I put in option. I explain : 'a' depend on 'b' 'b' depend on 'c' so it make the tree a \- b \- c If I do for exemple 'search-for-revdep c', it show me 'b' (and why not 'c')

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:27:50 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: If I do for exemple 'search-for-revdep c', it show me 'b' (and why not 'c') (search-for-revdep is the utility I need) So if I install 'a', and so in dependencie (that are not currently installed) 'b' 'c', but after use 'a', I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:16:13 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: But I continue to think that revdep is a features miss in gentoo tool (not web front-end) like http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+/rdep How is the information here different for the output of qpkg -q gtk+? Both show a list of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Bertrand Jacquin
But I continue to think that revdep is a features miss in gentoo tool (not web front-end) like http://gentoo-portage.com/x11-libs/gtk+/rdep How is the information here different for the output of qpkg -q gtk+? Both show a list of the packages that depend on gtk+. I made an error, equery is good

Re: [gentoo-user] Utility for reverse dependencies

2005-03-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:36:15 +0100, Bertrand Jacquin wrote: How is the information here different for the output of qpkg -q gtk+? Both show a list of the packages that depend on gtk+. I made an error, equery is good :) But slow :( equery took more than thirty seconds to list packages