Determining who needs a given package

dcbdbis

dcbdbis

Good evening all,

I had Enlightenment installed, then I removed it and am using Xfce. Well, at least I thought I removed it. In performing my weekly port update, portmaster -adB is trying to install, not upgrade efl (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries). I need to find out which port I have installed that is asking for efl. It's probably a remnant of Enlightenment, but in my ports to upgrade list I sure can't see any port name that is obvious.

My system is built from ports, not packages. I am not seeing anything in the man page for pkg nor portmaster that seems to fit my needs. How do I determine which package is calling for efl as a dependency (or is trying to install it)?

sudo pkg info|grep efl indicates that efl is not installed, so something left on my system is trying to install it. I need to find out who it is and remove it.

Thank you for your assistance,

Sincerely and respectfully,

Dave
 
From pkg-info(8):
Code: 
-r, --required-by
  Display the list of packages which require pkg-name.
So if you run pkg info -r efl it should print the list of installed packages that require devel/efl.

You can find the complete list of packages which depends on devel/efl on FreshPorts in the section "This port is required by:".
 
Maybe this could helpful:
/usr/ports/UPDATING

20141125:
AFFECTS: users of EFL libraries
AUTHOR: gblach@FreeBSD.org

EFL libraries has been merged into one port. Before installing devel/efl
you must deinstall old EFL libraries:

# pkg delete -f eina eet evas evas-\* ecore\* eio efreet embryo edje \
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# make -C /usr/ports/devel/efl install clean
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