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.
It also only shows them by port, it doesn't show which ones are already matched (either by path, or by port being installed).
For example, I have no idea what minicom, lrzsz, and keremit are, but I get the following
kballard> port deps minicom
minicom has runtime dependencies on:
lrzsz
kermit
It works similarly for py-sqlite and py-sqlite2.
On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:20 AM, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
'port dependents foo'
seems not to display anything for either of them.
port dependents only works on installed ports on your system ...