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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:15:53 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new function available on portsmon.firepipe.net
Message-ID:  <20040318191553.GA22898@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403181249050.16303-100000@pancho>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403181249050.16303-100000@pancho>

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:59:34PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> I have a beta version of a ports dependency tree browser available
> for testing at http://portsmon.firepipe.net/portdependencytree.py.
>=20
> Enter a category and portname to see a (low-tech :-) ) rendition
> of the dependency tree for the port.  Each dependency is shown as
> a link that takes you to the overall description page for the port.
> (However, the link is only shown once for each dependency, at the
> level closest to the root, for clarity).
>=20
> This is similar to pkg_tree, but works from the entire ports
> hierarchy, not from just the currently installed set.  And, it
> bypasses /usr/ports/INDEX and instead iterates over 'make depend'.
> This means it's much slower, but since the tree is cvsupped once
> an hour, it will also be much more accurate.

This is cool!

> Asking for dependency trees for multiple ports will be too slow
> to be useable, so bear that in mind when you enter a category
> and portname: both fields use wildcard matching.

It might be nice to refuse to show inexact matches without explicit
wildcards (for exmaple x11/kde tries to show quite a few ports).

-- Brooks

--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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