[csw-users] list of top level packages?

[Wyche, George PW]

@Peter

Pretty close. That script saves me several hours of scripting effort.
The ideal would be for someone who has EVERYTHING installed to run that script and make the list available.

I would change the title of that page to (or have an addition of) : Top-Level Packages

Thank you, Peter.

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces+george.wyche=pw.utc.com at lists.opencsw.org [mailto:users-bounces+george.wyche=pw.utc.com at lists.opencsw.org] On Behalf Of Peter Bonivart
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 3:23 PM
To: Questions and discussions
Subject: Re: [csw-users] list of top level packages?

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Wyche, George             PW
<George.Wyche at pw.utc.com> wrote:
> Fellow users,
>
> I have 325 CSW packages. Before I go puzzling out which ones are top-level packages, is there an easy way to determine the list?
>
> Ideally, the many, many hundreds of CSW packages all serve top-level applications like firefox. Do we have a list of such?
>
> At the moment when I am asked "What do you have from CSW that I could use?" I am reduced to replying with "What do you want?" because no one wants to hear about all the various, small dependencies.. just: firefox, ssh, gimp, ... the high level stuff.
>
> I cannot see how this can be figured out automatically since some high level package "A" might require some high level package "B" AND VICE VERSA. Those 2, therefore, would not make it into the list of top-level packages (even though they should be).
>
> So has anyone already made a fairly complete list of this kind?
>
> I do have a practical situation where such a list would be very handy.

Maybe this could be useful:

http://www.opencsw.org/2010/09/which-csw-packages-have-been-installed/

/peter