port -v dependents

[Joshua Root]

On 2011-7-29 02:32 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> What is (by port:) meaning?
> The port dovecot2 has a path: style dependency on mysql5 (path:bin/mysql_config5:mysql5) when the +mysql5 variant is used.
> 
> $ port -v dependents mysql5
> dbslayer depends on mysql5 (by port:)
> dovecot2 depends on mysql5 (by port:)
> dspam-devel depends on mysql5 (by port:)
> libzdb depends on mysql5 (by port:)
> mysql5-server depends on mysql5 (by port:)
> p5-dbd-mysql depends on mysql5 (by port:)
> postfix depends on mysql5 (by port:)
> pure-ftpd depends on mysql5 (by port:)

The verbose message isn't entirely accurate any more, though it's not
that far wrong in a sense. Whichever port fulfilled the dependency at
install time is recorded as a dependency in the registry. So this
particular install of dovecot2 does depend on mysql5 specifically.

- Josh