Re: analysis of package dependencies
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:19:08PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
> I am installing some new servers and I want a list of the reason for each
> package being installed (no software is to be installed without a good
> reason).
Interesting idea...
> I then want to have a program go through this file and produce a list of all
> the packages those packages depend on and give them the same reason (cpp is
> needed for software development because gcc depends on it, libldap2 is needed
> because postfix-tls depends on it). Then the program will list the packages
> without a reason for being installed.
> Is there a program for this already?
deborphan might be tweakable to do this. pkg-order could also be useful.
Apt 0.5 now has a python interface, and possibly a perl interface, so
that's probably usable too.
HTH.
Cheers,
aj
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