Re: analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Matt! On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Deborphan is nearly perfect for this. Right now, it just keeps track of whether a package was installed to satisfy a dependancy, or because you really want it. If instead of the y/n question it uses for this, it asked _why_ you want a

Re: analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-29 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Zimmerman wrote: I believe it is debfoster that works the way you described, while deborphan merely finds installed library packages that do not satisfy any dependencies. You're right of course. -- see shy jo

Re: analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: deborphan might be tweakable to do this. pkg-order could also be useful. Apt 0.5 now has a python interface, and possibly a perl interface, so that's probably usable too. Deborphan is nearly perfect for this. Right now, it just keeps track of whether a package was

Re: analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 11:18:35AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: deborphan might be tweakable to do this. pkg-order could also be useful. Apt 0.5 now has a python interface, and possibly a perl interface, so that's probably usable too. Deborphan is nearly perfect for

analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-24 Thread Russell Coker
I am installing some new servers and I want a list of the reason for each package being installed (no software is to be installed without a good reason). For example I have a text file saying: gcc:Software development postfix:mail serving lilo:booting I then want to have a program go through

Re: analysis of package dependencies

2001-04-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:19:08PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: I am installing some new servers and I want a list of the reason for each package being installed (no software is to be installed without a good reason). Interesting idea... I then want to have a program go through this file