How to find all dependents of go?

[Joshua Root]

On 2016-1-16 01:03 , Christoph Iserlohn wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> Am 15.01.16 um 03:01 schrieb Joshua Root:
>> On 2016-1-15 10:36 , Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>> You can construct a better regex like: port echo 'depends:\:go(\s|$)'
> Thanks, that worked. I thought the regex matches against a list of (port) names,
> but apparently it matches literally against the contents of depends_* in the
> portfiles(s).
> 
> Still wondering why
> 
> $ port dependents go
> 
> doesn't work. It works fine for other ports:
> 
> $ port dependents erlang
> 
> couchdb depends on erlang
> 
> elixir depends on erlang
> 
> rebar depends on erlang

I would guess you just don't have any ports installed that have a
runtime dependency on go. Ports that only need it at build time are not
dependents.

- Josh