On Saturday 01 November 2003 03:45, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. When I make deinstall a port I often get the message: > port xxx depends on this port, but I'll still deinstall it anyway. > > That's really frustrating. I'd like to be able to know who depends on it > before de-installing it. Any suggestions? > > Look through the handbook I didn't find an answer.
Look into the Makefile. There is likely a line starting with BUILD_DEPENDS and one with RUN_DEPENDS. What follows these variable names are lists of files the program depends on, and (separated with a colon) the port that must be installed to get it. Daniela _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
