Finding dependencies

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 20:47, Michael Franz wrote:

> I found a discussion on how dependencies are defined (hierarchical  
> vs flat) in the archive.  Sounds like the discussion was  
> incomplete.  Regardless of which method is used is there any tool  
> that will walk the Portfile hierarchy to list all the dependencies?
>
> port deps <project/port name> will list the dependencies for the  
> port, but it does not list the dependencies of the dependencies.
>
> My problem is that xmlto is a dependencies to some project that I  
> am building but I cannot get xmlto to build and would like to  
> remove it from the port that is causing it to build, however, I  
> cannot figure out what project that is.

I wrote a PHP script which works with Graphviz to create a graph of  
recursive dependencies of a port. For example, here's what it does  
with the gimp2 port:

http://www.ryandesign.com/tmp/gimp.png

I haven't made it available anywhere yet, but I can send it to you if  
you like. Or if you tell me which port you're trying to install, I'll  
show you its dependency graph.