lib dependency confusion

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Jan 11 17:33:47 UTC 2018


On 2018-01-11 18:24, Jan Stary wrote:
> On Jan 11 06:23:11, ryandesign at macports.org 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,
> 
> Well, this seems like a very obvious question
> for a package management system, right?

I think you are looking for 'port dependents libressl'.

Rainer


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