lib dependency confusion

Jan Stary hans at stare.cz
Thu Jan 11 17:39:43 UTC 2018


> On Jan 11 18:33:47, raimue at macports.org wrote:
> > 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'.

Yes, that's what I've been missing. Thanks.

 	Jan
 


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