Understaning rleaves, rdepof

[Gerben Wierda]

Interesting.

So, how would you go about finding the ports on which what is actually installed depends?

E.g.: if I have dovecot+solr8 installed, how would I find out which ports dovecot truly depends on on my system?

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> On 30 Jan 2022, at 10:20, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 29, 2022, at 10:56, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>> 
>> But looking at the dovecot Portfile, it seems the dependency on apache-solr8 is specific to the +solr variant (which you have, to be sure). So assuming your installation isn't a bit confused somehow, maybe port isn't always smart about showing variant-specific dependencies.
>> 
>> That's just a guess, though; 
> 
> That's correct.
> 
>> On Jan 29, 2022, at 10:52, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you. That solves a lot of the mystery. I did encounter a small mystery:
>>> 
>>> gerben at hermione ~ % port installed rdepof:dovecot 
> 
> "rdepof" determines the port's recursive dependencies based on the port's default variants (which doesn't include +solr), not based on the variants with which you have it installed.
> 
> I'm not sure if there's a form of this command that allows you to specify an alternate set of variants.
> 
>>> The following ports are currently installed:
>>>  autoconf @2.71_1 (active)
>>>  automake @1.16.5_0 (active)
>>>  bison @3.8.2_2 (active)
>>>  bison-runtime @3.8.2_0 (active)
>>>  bzip2 @1.0.8_0 (active)
>>>  flex @2.6.4_0 (active)
>>>  gettext @0.21_0 (active)
>>>  gettext-runtime @0.21_0 (active)
>>>  gettext-tools-libs @0.21_0 (active)
>>>  libiconv @1.16_1 (active)
>>>  libtextstyle @0.21_0 (active)
>>>  libtool @2.4.6_13 (active)
>>>  lz4 @1.9.3_1 (active)
>>>  m4 @1.4.19_1 (active)
>>>  ncurses @6.3_0 (active)
>>>  openssl @3_2 (active)
>>>  openssl3 @3.0.1_0+legacy (active)
>>>  pkgconfig @0.29.2_0 (active)
>>>  xz @5.2.5_0 (active)
>>>  zlib @1.2.11_0 (active)
>>> gerben at hermione ~ % port installed rdependentof:apache-solr8
> 
> "rdependentof" consults your MacPorts registry to determine this information, so it's based on what was recorded there when you installed the ports with whatever variants you installed them with.
> 
>>> The following ports are currently installed:
>>>  dovecot @2.3.17_0+apns+solr (active)
>>> 
>>> Or, it seems port knows apache-solr8 is requested by dovecot but not the other way around.
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