Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi, > > just a dumb idea which came up when I thought about the possible content of a > "core"-book or such: > Could it be possible to generate a list of packages which are most used as > depedencies by other packages? That is as the other way round as looking at > a > package for which other packages are used as dependency but which packages > are > using this particular package as (required) dependency. > I've no idea whether such an analysis would bring useful information. > > So i think about a result of something like "libthis is used by 123 other > packages, but libthat is used by 2." So, the libthis could be a candidate > for > the core, the libthat not so much.
If you have the xml: find -name \*.xml| grep -v /tmp | xargs grep linkend | \ sed -r 's/.*(linkend=".*").*/\1/'| sort Then count the identical lines. Some of the ones used a lot (more than 10) are GConf, GTK, alsa, alsa-lib, avahi, cups, db, cyrus-sasl, dbus, dbus-glib, docbook-utils, doxygen, etc. There are a total of 3499 references and I see 573 unique refs. Not all the refs are packages. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
