<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You're using it wrong. Try for example<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">port installed rdepends:xorg-libx11</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note the colon (no spaces) between depends and the port name. Same for depends, depof, rdepof, and others; see the port man page for details.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 29, 2022, at 07:20, Gerben Wierda via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" class="">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Jan 2022, at 11:45, Gerben Wierda via macports-users <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" class="">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">I was cleaning up MacPorts on one system prior to an OS upgrade, and I noticed</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">root@hermione LaunchDaemons # port list rleaves </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;">root@hermione LaunchDaemons # port list rdepof xorg-libX11</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Monaco;">xorg-libX11 @1.7.2 x11/xorg-libX11</div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Now, as I understand it rleaves are the ports that are in your landscape that have nothing that depends on it. Accoriding to port there are no such ports. So, the port xorg-libX11 should have some sort of a dependency. But all my attempts to find it come up empty.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cleaning up MacPorts remains a mystery to me. </div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Adding to my confusion:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">albus:MacPortsDev sysbh$ port installed depof dovecot</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">The following ports are currently installed:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> dovecot @2.3.17_0+apns+solr (active)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">albus:MacPortsDev sysbh$ port installed rdepof dovecot</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">The following ports are currently installed:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> dovecot @2.3.17_0+apns+solr (active)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">albus:MacPortsDev sysbh$ port installed rdepends dovecot</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">The following ports are currently installed:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> dovecot @2.3.17_0+apns+solr (active)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">albus:MacPortsDev sysbh$ port installed dependentof dovecot</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">The following ports are currently installed:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> dovecot @2.3.17_0+apns+solr (active)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">albus:MacPortsDev sysbh$ port installed rdependentof dovecot</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">The following ports are currently installed:</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"> dovecot @2.3.17_0+apns+solr (active)</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;">Same for postfix for instance. Now, whatever pseudo-portname I give, the answer is always only the port itself. That cannot be right.</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;"><br class=""></span></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="">Gerben Wierda (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerbenwierda" class="">LinkedIn</a>)</div><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><a href="https://ea.rna.nl/" class="">R&A IT Strategy</a> (main site)<br class="">Book: <a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book/" class="">Chess and the Art of Enterprise Architecture</a><br class="">Book: <a href="https://ea.rna.nl/the-book-edition-iii/" class="">Mastering ArchiMate</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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