Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse dependency Scanning

[Spider]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:51 +0200, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> I've made a small python wrapper around depreverse, which is
> available here:  http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/dotfinder.py
>
> It has a similar purpose as your "finder.sh" wrapper, but outputs
> its results as a graph in dot format (with 4 layers: requested
> packages, contents files, depended-on files, and depended-on
> packages). For example, the following command:
>   ./dotfinder.py galeon | dot -Tps > galeon.ps
> will results in something like this:
>   http://tdegreni.free.fr/gentoo/galeon.ps
>
> I'm not sure it's really useful, but oh well, it was worth writing
> to learn dot's very basics :)

Hehe,  Rather cool, but the diagram is a bit hard to get an overview of.
Though, I recognise the reason for doing it :)


 Thanks ,
   Spider

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