lib dependency confusion

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 11, 2018, at 01:05, Jan Stary wrote:

> On Jan 10 14:20:21, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 10, 2018, at 14:03, Jan Stary wrote:
>>> 
>>> $ port installed depends:libressl
>>> None of the specified ports are installed.
>> 
>> This result means: of the ports that specify a dependency containing the substring "libressl", you don't have any installed. 
> 
> OK, what is the right way to ask port(1)
> 
> 	"which of my currently installed ports
> 	do depend on the installed libressl"?

I'm not aware of a way to get the answer to that question, short of manually querying the registry sqlite database. And even that might be incomplete or inaccurate. You could, for example, have forcibly deactivated libressl and activated a different openssl-compatible library in its place afterward.