[HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Doug Barton wrote:

> Jonathan wrote:
>> On 8/24/2009 8:23 PM, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>>> Is there any convenient way to list dependencies hierarchially,
>>> rather than the flat set that pkg_info -r provides?
>>
>> I've found pkg_tree to be useful for that.
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/ports-mgmt/pkg_tree/pkg-descr
>>
>> The feature I use the most is pkg_tree -tq which gives a list of all
>> ports that are not depended on by any other ports, i.e. the minimal set
>> to manually reinstall to replicate a set of installed ports on another
>> machine.
>
> portmaster -l will give you a list of ports in the following categories:
>
> ===>>> Root ports (No dependencies, not depended on)
> ===>>> Trunk ports (No dependencies, are depended on)
> ===>>> Branch ports (Have dependencies, are depended on)
> ===>>> Leaf ports (Have dependencies, not depended on)
>
> There is a procedure in the man page that describes how to use that
> information to do a clean reinstall of your ports.

Is there any way to graph that visually?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA