Re: list of all prerequisites/ dependencies on a package

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 13.04.2022 um 17:36 schrieb J. Lewis Muir:
> On 04/08, Roland Illig wrote:
> > There should be a cleaner way of listing all of a package's
> > dependencies.  My first idea was to define a target named
> > 'show-all-depends', but that name is already used as part of 'show-all'.
> >   Therefore I suggest 'show-depends-all'.
>
> Hi, Roland!
>
> Please, not that name, though.  Not that there's anything wrong with
> it on its own, but this would make for two targets that only differ in
> the order of two words, and I think most people would not be able to
> remember which is which.

Makes sense.  My preferred name would have been 'show-all-transitive',
but there is already prior art in the form of 'fetch-list-recursive',
which also uses _DEPENDS_WALK_CMD, so I went with 'show-all-recursive'.

Roland