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On 11/19/2012 10:40, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
> It's not just subversion.  I was working on a new port the other day, 
> and one of it's dependencies triggered a lengthy traverse of numerous 
> x11, x11-tookits, x11-fonts, etc., etc.  Rather mind-boggling when you 
> realize this is a program that generates graphs rather than a 
> GUI-based program. 

It would be very beneficial if somebody made a program that would 
visualize the particular port's dependencies as a graph (like .dot 
format). This should be quite easy to do.
Or maybe such program already exists?

Yuri