Print list of linked dependencies for package.

finddeps firefox-pgo | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs | sed -e 's/glibc//g' -e 's/gcc//g' -e 's/binutils//g' -e 's/ \+ / /g'
This will look in all binary and library files in package and then search the system for this library and then print the required package that has this file, this depends on /etc/prt-get.conf prtdir order. finddeps is a prt-utils script for http://crux.nu/ CRUX Linux. If you use docker you can try this out with "docker run -i -t crux"
Sample Output 
bzip2 libpcre util-linux zlib alsa-lib atk cairo expat fontconfig freetype gdk-pixbuf glib gtk harfbuzz libffi libjpeg-turbo libpng nspr nss pango sqlite3 libbsd xorg-libice xorg-libpixman xorg-libsm xorg-libx11 xorg-libxau xorg-libxcb xorg-libxcomposite xorg-libxcursor xorg-libxdamage xorg-libxdmcp xorg-libxext xorg-libxfixes xorg-libxinerama xorg-libxrandr xorg-libxrender xorg-libxt

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By: Romster
2014-12-05 07:34:07
cut sed xargs crux find dependencies
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