Re: list of all prerequisites/ dependencies on a package

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

Am 14.04.2022 um 00:04 schrieb Roland Illig:
> 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'.

Oops, I made some typos in the above paragraph.  Of course, I meant
'show-depends-transitive' and 'show-depends-recursive'.  In the code, I
used the correct names.

Roland