BUG: base-1.4.3 Is "dependents" target broken?

[gwhitney@…]

New install of MacPorts-1.4.0 from tarball, followed by successful "sudo port selfupdate"

Then I get:

chickadee$ port dependents expat
expat has no dependents!
chickadee$ port deps gettext
gettext has library dependencies on:
        libiconv
        expat

By my reading of the documentation, gettext (et. al) should have been listed in the "port dependents expat" command since gettext depends on it.

[pipping@…]

port dependents shows only dependents that are currently installed.

to find dependents that aren't currently installed, you might want to use this script:

 http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/users/pipping/find_dependents.pl

[gwhitney@…]

Thanks for the clarification. So either this find_dependents.pl functionality should be folded in to "port", or the man page should be changed from

dependents

Lists the ports that depend on the port portname.

to

dependents

Lists the installed ports that depend on the port portname.

Either way it's a "bug", just the latter is much easier to fix. :-)

[gwhitneycom1@…]

For the sake of completeness, I thought I should post the 1-line patch to port.1 which would resolve this ticket quite satisfactorily.

[gwhitney@…]

As a small first contribution as a Macports developer, I will check in this tiny documentation patch to resolve this bug.

[markd@…]

Committed in r25787. Thanks!