How do I find out who requested a port?

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

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Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)




> On Apr 13, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
> 
> Check out port requested (or perhaps port echo requested if it isn't available in the first form).
> 
> If you asked for the installation explicitly, it'll show up in that list. Anything is an automatic installer to fulfill dependency requirements.
> 
> Note if the requested package was removed or never installed, the notrequested (another key word you can likely use in a port command) will say no dependents and not requested. These are called leaves and can be safely pruned: I believe there's a port to automate that removal, port_cutleaves.
> 
> On April 13, 2016 7:02:09 PM EDT, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2016-04-13, at 3:50 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Check out `port dependents gdk-pixbuf2` (with port deps being the
>> other direction).
>> 
>> keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents xorg-libX11
>> gdk-pixbuf2 depends on xorg-libX11
>> mesa depends on xorg-libX11
>> xorg-libXext depends on xorg-libX11
>> xorg-libXfixes depends on xorg-libX11
>> xorg-libXt depends on xorg-libX11
>> xrender depends on xorg-libX11
>> keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents mesa
>> mesa has no dependents.
>> keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents gdk-pixbuf2
>> gtk2 depends on gdk-pixbuf2
>> keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ 
>> 
>> Hmm, so mesa is one of them, and nothing depends on mesa (so who asked
>> for it / why is it there?)
>> 
>> But also gtk2. I thought gtk3 was the current version -- gtk2 isn't
>> even maintained if I understood correctly.
>> 
>> keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents gtk2
>> gtk2 has no dependents.
>> 
>> And who asked for it?
>> 
>>> On April 13, 2016 6:42:42 PM EDT, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> How do I find out which port requested another port?
>>>> 
>>>> Specifically, lets say I'd rather have quartz-based, rather than
>>>> x11-based, ports installed.
>>>> 
>>>> Attempting to install gtk3 -x11 +quartz gave me the error message
>> that
>>>> gdk-pixbuf2 must be installed without +x11.
>>>> 
>>>> So I've got X11 installed, without realizing it, and without wanting
>>>> it.
>>>> How would I go about tracing down all the ports that I'd need to
>>>> re-install without X11?
>>>> 
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