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List:       macports-users
Subject:    Re: How do I find out who requested a port?
From:       Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla () macports ! org>
Date:       2016-04-14 14:27:57
Message-ID: 92327FA5-A7A7-41CD-B0A2-3416D7C79185 () macports ! org
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Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)




> On Apr 13, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy@lavergne.gotdns.org> wrote:
> 
> Check out port requested (or perhaps port echo requested if it isn't available in \
> the first form). 
> If you asked for the installation explicitly, it'll show up in that list. Anything \
> is an automatic installer to fulfill dependency requirements. 
> Note if the requested package was removed or never installed, the notrequested \
> (another key word you can likely use in a port command) will say no dependents and \
> not requested. These are called leaves and can be safely pruned: I believe there's \
> a port to automate that removal, port_cutleaves. 
> On April 13, 2016 7:02:09 PM EDT, Michael <keybounce@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On 2016-04-13, at 3:50 PM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy@lavergne.gotdns.org>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Check out `port dependents gdk-pixbuf2` (with port deps being the
> > other direction).
> > 
> > keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents xorg-libX11
> > gdk-pixbuf2 depends on xorg-libX11
> > mesa depends on xorg-libX11
> > xorg-libXext depends on xorg-libX11
> > xorg-libXfixes depends on xorg-libX11
> > xorg-libXt depends on xorg-libX11
> > xrender depends on xorg-libX11
> > keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents mesa
> > mesa has no dependents.
> > keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents gdk-pixbuf2
> > gtk2 depends on gdk-pixbuf2
> > keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ 
> > 
> > Hmm, so mesa is one of them, and nothing depends on mesa (so who asked
> > for it / why is it there?)
> > 
> > But also gtk2. I thought gtk3 was the current version -- gtk2 isn't
> > even maintained if I understood correctly.
> > 
> > keybounceMBP:Mlp michael$ port dependents gtk2
> > gtk2 has no dependents.
> > 
> > And who asked for it?
> > 
> > > On April 13, 2016 6:42:42 PM EDT, Michael <keybounce@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > How do I find out which port requested another port?
> > > > 
> > > > Specifically, lets say I'd rather have quartz-based, rather than
> > > > x11-based, ports installed.
> > > > 
> > > > Attempting to install gtk3 -x11 +quartz gave me the error message
> > that
> > > > gdk-pixbuf2 must be installed without +x11.
> > > > 
> > > > So I've got X11 installed, without realizing it, and without wanting
> > > > it.
> > > > How would I go about tracing down all the ports that I'd need to
> > > > re-install without X11?
> > > > 
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