graphically show dependencies

Caolan McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Sat Jan 12 13:19:34 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 07:52 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Saturday 12 January 2008 06:53:28 Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > I remember that there was a tool to show graphically the package
> > dependencies. Did I dream? If not, where is it?
> 
> rpmgraph shows you the runtime dependencies that are in the rpm. Notably, 
> rpmbuild does not figure out shell script dependencies, so that is missing. 
> (But it could with a little work by scanning installed packages for shell 
> scripts and running bash --rpm-requires $TARGET).

It'd be nice to see a graph of dependencies in pirut, see what things
are at the tip of branches that nothing depends on that could be
removed.

C.




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