curious dependency issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 7, 2014, at 17:14, David Strubbe wrote:

> Ok, I think I see what is going on here: apparently "port installed depends:XXX" returns all ports depending on port XXX -- OR a port that contains the string XXX.

It’s a regular expression search. So if you want the ports that depend on gcr, you could use:

$ port echo depends:':gcr($|\s)'
empathy                         
epiphany                        
evolution-data-server           
gnome-keyring                   
gnome-online-accounts           
gnome3-core                     
libgdata                        
seahorse                  
$