[chef] How to obtain cookbook dependencies from metadata.rb?

[Torben Knerr < >]

Ohai Chefs,

what's the easiest way to obtain the cookbook dependencies defined in metadata.rb (only direct dependencies are required)?

I'm not too firm with the chef internals yet, thus my first idea was to evaluate metadata.rb and recording the `depends` calls via `method_missing` - but this doesn't feels quite right... 

Thanks!

Torben