I forget again: is there an easy way to tell if any ports depend on those?
yes, there is:
$grep :cairo-devel */*/Portfile
I'll put this in the FAQ. Would it be useful to make the port command do this in a future revision?
Mark
I've put together a script to search for dependents. Here's what it does: * works on ports that aren't currently installed * supports both the (bin|lib):foo:name and the port:name syntax * matches the exact name [1] (searching for ncurses does not bring up results for ncursesw) * supports regexp [2] (e.g. searching for "ncursesw?") * finds dependencies that hide in variants * finds dependencies that hide in comments (yet to be gotten rid of) setup: the script needs to be run from within the dports folder. invocation: foo.sh ncursesw? ==== foo ==== #! /bin/sh # room for customization SED=/usr/bin/sed GREP=/usr/bin/grep $GREP -E "(port|(lib|bin):[^:]+):$1([\t ]|$)" */*/Portfile | $SED "s=/ Portfile:.*==g" ==== bar ==== [1] http://paste.lisp.org/display/39008/raw [2] http://paste.lisp.org/display/39008,1/raw Regards, Elias