Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:45:04AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
[snip]
> > Second, more general question: the dependency links in debian
> > form a directed graph. Presumably, it is acyclic. That implies
> > that the graph contains root, interior and leaf nodes. Is their
> > some program which displays just the root nodes? It would be
> > useful answering my first question.
>
> I'm not sure but it would be a quick job in perl, if it hasn't been done
> (and packaged) already.
A moment with 'apt-cache search graph|sort|less' produces
apt-rdepends. Thus, along with the recommended package graphviz,
one can do:
apt-rdepends -d evolution | dotty
and get a big graph. Now, the trick will have to be to turn it
into a png or jpg....
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