Re: Package Graphs (was: truetype something something)
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 12:26:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz <jake@megabite.net> was heard to say:
> Jason Gunthorpe (jgg@ualberta.ca) wrote:
> > I have arranged for apt-cache to be able to emit files that dot can read
> > to describe the directed cyclic graph that is our package relations.
> > Now, it is not possible to actually graph the whole distribution you can show
> > little subsets of it. The results are pretty cool.
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/~jgg/dcg/ has some examples,
>
> now THIS is why people buy computers. :)
>
> seriously, though. this is very cool. thankyou. now, lets find some way to
> intergrate this into aptitiude or something. i want to be able to see what
> packages i loose if i purge perl-boo and libgtkasdf1g. might be nice for
> judging just how critical bugs are too.
If someone can describe or send to me a way to represent that in curses, I'll
be duly impressed :-) Probably gnome-apt is a more logical place to put this
sort of thing, though, or would be if its development wasn't (as far as I can
tell) dead..
On second thought: how does this work? Would a single 'system' call be
able to do this in X, or is something more complicated needed? (I don't
know what dot is, so..) It wouldn't be dynamic, but you'd at least get
pretty pictures :)
Daniel
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