Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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....
>
Hi,
this is very interesting. you get to see the relationships between
packages. I also tried it with '-d -r'. I also got a chance to try my
hand at making a simple family tree graph. I always wondered what
'dotty' was. Neat for simple graphs.
-Kev
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