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I want to find/list/search packages depending on a specific package on FreeBSD with pkg tool. How can I do that? Something like:

# pkg list dependent-upon llvm40 ???

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Running $ man pkg-info, I see:

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported by pkg info:

     -r, --required-by
             Display the list of packages which require pkg-name.

I tested and it works:

$ pkg info -r llvm40
llvm40-4.0.1:
        mesa-dri-17.1.7
Megidd
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    Note that this would only search amongst your installed packages, not all packages in the repository. – arrowd Sep 07 '17 at 06:51
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    Though I would hardly be interested in knowing all the packages requiring `perl5` in all the ports (...) – Ouki Sep 07 '17 at 07:32