Re: Reverse-dependency support in Portage2 ?

Miguel S. Filipe wrote:
> Jean-Michel Smith wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:57 am, Dan Naumov wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Hey.
> > >
> > > I would like to know whether some kind of reverse-dependency support is
> > > going to be included in Portage2. It would be nice if in case of
> > > unmerging a package, Portage would let the user know whether some
> > > installed packages need it and if so, what packages do.
> > >   
> >
> >
> > I would second that feature request.  It would also allow for some 
> > intelligent 'auto-healing' of the system, by allowing one to 
> > (optionally) recompile any packages dependent on an ebuild that has 
> > just been upgraded so they run against the newest version or warning 
> > one before a package upon which others rely is removed.  This is the 
> > one feature I miss most about Source Mage (sorcerer).
> >
> > Jean.
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> Yes, that must be something that the next version of portage address.
> I also second that feature request!

Please note this is very easy todo by hand.  I wrote a script in an hour 
or so once that did reverse dependancy look up.  This was sometime ago, 
though, and I don't think the python-portage api is the same anymore. 
Is this true?  If I get a chance I'll look into it and post the script 
to the list.

        -- David Snopek

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