Christian Aichinger wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:36:08AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> In case it's of interest to anyone, I went through the checklib >> logs available on the web page for "problems" and found the >> libraries that are most often listed as bogus dependencies. > > This seriously rocks. Thanks. > > Actually that should be terribly easy to get this out of the DB > checklib uses, but it isn't, mostly due to lazyness on my side. > > Might I include your script in checklib (under GPLv2+, if possible), > and put the results on a seperate page on rerun.lefant.net/checklib? Yes, sure! You'll probably want to make serious improvements to it since it was just something I whipped out very quickly. I hereby license the script under the MIT license, to wit: > Copyright (c) 2006 Kevin B. McCarty > > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining > a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the > "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including > without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, > distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to > permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to > the following conditions: > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, > EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF > MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND > NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS > BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN > ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN > CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE > SOFTWARE. (This is of course GPL-compatible :-) Is there any chance you could also have it output the percentage of dependencies on each library which are unnecessary (as Kurt did in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00940.html )? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
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