Re: Cleaning up port dependencies

From: Alexander Portnoy (my-subs_at_mail.ru)
Date: 11/25/04

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    Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 15:14:57 +0200
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    On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:22:56 +0800
    Nick Kraal <nick@arc.net.my> wrote:

    > Dear all,
    >
    > Running 'portupgrade -a' religiously to automatically update all
    > installed installed ports, I have started to notice duplicates in
    > certain installed applications. Most likely due to dependencies.
    >
    > %pkg_info
    > ...
    > ruby-1.6.8.2004.07.28 An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
    > ruby-1.8.2.p2_1 An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
    > tk-8.3.5_5 Graphical toolkit for TCL
    > tk-8.4.7,2 Graphical toolkit for TCL
    > libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
    > libtool-1.5.10 Generic shared library support script (version 1.5)
    >
    > Is there a way to check on whether dependencies on the earlier version
    > still exist. Or perhaps I have deleted a port that does not need that
    > port version any more. Just some housekeeping here.
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    > "pkg_info -r <pkg_name>"
    > -nick/

    Try to use "pkg_info -r <pkg_name>" and "pkg_info -R <pkg_name>" to see the dependencies.
    I am not sure that this will work for build dependences like libtool, but this work for regular run
    dependencies:

    $ pkg_info -rR gtk-2.4.13
    Information for gtk-2.4.13:

    Depends on:
    Dependency: expat-1.95.8
    Dependency: freetype2-2.1.7_3
    Dependency: perl-5.8.5
    Dependency: jpeg-6b_3
    Dependency: libiconv-1.9.2_1
    Dependency: png-1.2.7
    Dependency: pkgconfig-0.15.0_1
    Dependency: imake-6.7.0_2
    Dependency: fontconfig-2.2.3,1
    Dependency: gettext-0.13.1_1
    Dependency: libxml2-2.6.16
    Dependency: xorg-libraries-6.7.0_3
    Dependency: tiff-3.7.0_2
    Dependency: xorg-fonts-encodings-6.7.0
    Dependency: bitstream-vera-1.10
    Dependency: glib-2.4.7
    Dependency: shared-mime-info-0.15
    Dependency: xorg-fonts-truetype-6.7.0
    Dependency: libXft-2.1.6
    Dependency: hicolor-icon-theme-0.5
    Dependency: pango-1.6.0
    Dependency: atk-1.8.0
    Required by:
    emelfm2-0.0.9_1
    gconf2-2.8.1
    gftp-2.0.18.r1_1
    gimp-2.0.6_1,1
    gnomevfs2-2.8.3_1
    gqview-1.4.5_1
    gtk-engines2-2.2.0_5
    librsvg2-2.8.1_1
    mozilla-1.7.3_3,2
    openoffice-2.0
    pgadmin3-1.0.2_1
    sylpheed-gtk2-0.9.99.20041024_1
    vim-gtk2-6.3.16
    wxgtk2-common-devel-2.5.2_1
    wxgtk2-contrib-common-devel-2.5.2_1
    wxgtk2-unicode-contrib-devel-2.5.2_1
    wxgtk2-unicode-devel-2.5.2_1
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