Breaking long dependency chains

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 18, 2012, at 15:26, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> On 3/18/12 2:26 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> Are you looking for "port rdeps tk +quartz"?
> 
> Wow, that sure did the trick.

It's also fun to see the dependencies graphically; the depgraph script does this:

https://trac.macports.org/browser/contrib/port-depgraph


> I see that command documented in the man page, but not the MacPorts guide, which is where I have historically looked first.  Are the two documents maintained in sync? That would be very helpful.

Definitely not. Our documentation is a horrible confusion of different sources, including the guide, manpages, wiki pages, etc. Sorry.