Subject: Re: How to list the pretendings or the list of the dependencies?
To: Gueven Bay <gueven.bay@googlemail.com>
From: Adrian Portelli <adrianp@stindustries.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/20/2007 11:17:01
Gueven Bay wrote:
> How can I get the list of (all) packages which pkgsrc will
> get,extract,build,etc. if I for example do a "make install" in
> pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-libs ?
> 
> So, I am searching for an equivalent for "emerge --pretend" or "apt-get -s".
> 
> 
> Thank you
> regards
> Gueven

Hi,

I'm not a Debian/Gentoo user so I'm not 100% sure what the apt/emerge
commands would exactly show but have a look at 'make show-depends' and
'make fetch-list' is another you might find interesting.

adrian.