On 28 Jan, Crístian Viana wrote: > hi, > > is there any way I could search for packages that depend on a specific > ebuild version? for example, I want to find out what packages depend exactly > on virtual/jdk:1.5 (and not virtual/jdk:1.4 nor virtual/jdk-1.6). if I do > this search: > > $ equery depends virtual/jdk:1.5 > > it will show me all packages that virtual/jdk:1.5 satisfies, but I need the > packages that depend only on that version (or slot, in this case). > > this would be useful because I may have both versions of Java installed, but > I just want to have the latest version (1.6), so I need to find out what > packages are pulling the older version. >
Hi, take Neil Bothwick's swiss army knife : emerge -vp --depclean virtual/jdk:1.5 (it's a special case of emerge, showing which packages have pulled in the package given on the command line.) Thanks Neil! Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
