On Dec 13, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:

That can't be true. port dependents shows all the dependencies listed in the PortIndex for the given port. This means it doesn't show dependencies for variants, or any nested dependencies, but it does show the top level of them.

deps != dependents

% grep gettext PortIndex | wc -l

     154

% port deps gettext

gettext has library dependencies on:

        libiconv

        expat

% port dependents gettext

clearsilver depends on gettext

popt depends on gettext

libgpg-error depends on gettext

mono depends on gettext

glib2 depends on gettext

bison depends on gettext

gnupg depends on gettext