Ports and their dependencies (run deps and also versioning questions)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 31, 2008, at 22:22, Rainer Müller wrote:

>> So this would really be the only way (with a machine and parsing  
>> software)
>> to automatically confirm the probable version information of the ldap
>> (openldap port) variant for the library dependency when ldap is a  
>> variant
>> tacked on to postfix?
>
> Hmmmmmm.... *taking a deep thought*
> Aaaah, port info!
>
> Use like this:
> $ port info --depends_build --depends_lib --depends_run postfix +ldap

I'm glad to know this! I had no idea. I'll have to incorporate this  
into my portviz port dependency visualizer to show correct  
dependencies of installed ports taking into account the selected  
variants (which it has thus far been unable to do).