qdepends

Section: qdepends (1)
Updated: May 2018
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NAME

qdepends - show dependency info

SYNOPSIS

qdepends [opts] <pkgname>

DESCRIPTION

The qdepends applet has a couple different modes. Normally it is geared towards answering the queries "what does package X depend on" and "what packages depend on X". Both can further be classified into build, run, and post dependencies.

By default, it will tell you the build time dependencies only (DEPEND).

Currently, qdepends will only query installed packages. There is no support for querying packages not yet installed (see equery(1) for that).

If there is no answer to your query (i.e. you've asked for a package that is not installed, or a version that does not match), then you will get back no output.

OPTIONS

-d, --depend: Show DEPEND info (default).
-r, --rdepend: Show RDEPEND info.
-p, --pdepend: Show PDEPEND info.
-k <arg>, --key <arg>: Advanced option to allow querying the VDB. This option overrides -d, -r, -p or -a. <arg> can be any key from Portage's VDB, e.g. any file from var/db/pkg/<cat>/<pkg>/.
-Q <arg>, --query <arg>: Query reverse deps. This basically reverses the search to any package that references <arg> in DEPEND, RDEPEND or PDEPEND. This can be useful to find consumers of a given package, e.g. to search for packages that have logwatch in their DEPEND.
-N, --name-only: Only show category/package, instead of category/package-version.
-a, --all: Show *DEPEND, alias for -drp.
-f, --format: Pretty-print DEPEND declaration to be used in an ebuild. This option initiates a very different mode of operation. Instead of printing searching through packages, it constructs a multi-line statement in with shell syntax, to be used in an ebuild. Each argument is turned into a separate DEPEND variable declaration. You need to quote dependency strings in order for them to be printed as a single dependency declaration. When used with the -q option, only the pretty-printed dependency declaration is printed, e.g. the DEPEND= part is skipped.
--root <arg>: Set the ROOT env var.
-v, --verbose: When in reverse dep mode, print the package or packages that matched the query from the dependency line being searched. This includes specifiers and versions.
-q, --quiet: Suppress DEPEND= output for -f.
-C, --nocolor: Don't output color.
-h, --help: Print this help and exit.
-V, --version: Print version and exit.

EXAMPLES

For finding out what a particular package depends on for building, you could do:

        $ qdepends nano
        app-editors/nano-2.3.2: >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r1[unicode] sys-apps/file ...

This tells us that we have app-editors/nano-2.3.2 installed and it depends on ncurses (among other things).

Searching for packages that actually have nano in their RDEPEND:

        $ qdepends -rQ nano
        virtual/editor-0

Tells us that virtual/editor depends on nano. However, if we wanted to know in what way a package specifically depends on another package, one can use -v.

        $ qdepends -vrQ logrotate
        sys-apps/portage-2.3.18: >=app-admin/logrotate-3.8.0

This way we can see there is a specific dependency expressed here. If the above had used <logrotate-3, for example, no matches would be returned. Not using any specifiers allows to reveal in what way a dependency is expressed.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
Product: Portage Development; Component: Tools, Assignee: portage-utils@gentoo.org

AUTHORS

Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>