[SOLVED] View dependencies of a package

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ROGA · Post by **ROGA** » Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:07 am

I installed postfixadmin and this package installs a lot of dependencies packages like apache, mysql and php etc. (more or less 95 Packages). Where are this dependencies defined and where can I view it? This dependenies do not come from USE-Flags (as I always thought), so from where do they com? Is there a tool to do this? Neither eix nor equery do the job (or I do something wrong).
Thanks for help.

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:12 am

equery is your friend equery g www-apps/postfixadmin. There is also --depth=N option to see the dependencies of dependencies.

ROGA · Post by **ROGA** » Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:25 am

Wow, Great! That's exactly for what I'm searched.

as always as I wrote: I do make mistakes

Many Thanks!

Post by Hu » Sat Oct 22, 2022 3:33 pm

If you had not yet installed it, another option would be emerge --pretend --verbose --tree, which would indent the dependency graph to differentiate direct dependencies, first-level indirect dependencies, second-level indirect dependencies, and so on.