[csw-maintainers] Fooling around with dependencies

[John Ellson]

On 01/24/2012 09:48 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have been playing around with dependencies and hacked up a tiny cgi with
> Sebastians deptree to dot converter. You can invoke it with
>    http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=<pkg>
>
> Here are some examples:
>    http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=vim
>    http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=xmlstarlet
>    http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=libneon27
>    http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=openldap
>
> I would like to integrate this somewhere on the package information page.
>
>
> Best regards
>
>    -- Dago
>

Dago,

Ouch!

	http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/cgi-bin/depgraph?pkg=graphviz


You might want to produce -Tsvgz images instead of bitmaps, to reduce 
image size.

You could also consider running through "tred" to eliminate (or perhaps 
to highlight) the redundant transitive dependencies.

John