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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse dependency Scanning
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:52:36
Message-Id: 200504251452.33864.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse dependency Scanning by Spider
1 On Monday 25 April 2005 11:29, Spider wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:51 +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
3 > > I've made a small python wrapper around depreverse, which is
4 > > available here: http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/dotfinder.py
5 > >
6 > > It has a similar purpose as your "finder.sh" wrapper, but outputs
7 > > its results as a graph in dot format (with 4 layers: requested
8 > > packages, contents files, depended-on files, and depended-on
9 > > packages). For example, the following command:
10 > > ./dotfinder.py galeon | dot -Tps > galeon.ps
11 > > will results in something like this:
12 > > http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/galeon.ps
13 > >
14 > > I'm not sure it's really useful, but oh well, it was worth writing
15 > > to learn dot's very basics :)
16 >
17 > Hehe, Rather cool, but the diagram is a bit hard to get an overview
18 > of. Though, I recognise the reason for doing it :)
19
20 Making the diagram vertical would probably be a big improvement. one thing
21 I miss however is a destinction between libraries linked into the
22 application, and those that only are taken in by another library. The so
23 files do make this distinction so it should be possible to extract it.
24
25 Paul
26
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28 Paul de Vrieze
29 Gentoo Developer
30 Mail: pauldv@g.o
31 Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse dependency Scanning Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>