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Date:      Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:00:37 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Graphing installed ports
Message-ID:  <87547.1385244037@server1.tristatelogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <D5AD0E8D-2BB8-48CC-9ED6-52933D3212F8@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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In message <D5AD0E8D-2BB8-48CC-9ED6-52933D3212F8@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, 
Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote:

>The following script
>http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/check_pkg.py
>does the job you want plus other things,

Thank you!

>but it was written for the old package
>system (i.e. it looks under /var/db/pkg).

That's OK.  I am still using that.

>By the way i noted that as soon as you have a fair number of ports =
>installed, you get
>so many arrows in the diagram that you cannot see anything, rendering =
>the idea quite useless.

Well, that is interesting.

I have a dim recollection that there is/was s theorem in the fields of
software science to the effect that the greater the number of interconnections
(e.g. between functions) within a given program, the more likely it was to
have bugs.

I'll have to go and do some googling now and refresh my memory about that.


Regards,
rfg



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