On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 10:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 17:01 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt] > > > After I invested an hour so to track down the reason for an evil > > > FTBFS, I have a very simple request: If you maintain a library that > > > gets used by other people and you break the API, you should notify > > > them. Really. > > > > A good idea. Perhaps we should have a tool in the archive to do this > > for us? Is there a tool to list the reverse depends of a package? (I > > know it can be done with one-liners, but it would be more convinient > > if it was a working tool available for everyone to use. :) > > apt-rdepends
This will give you a nice pretty graph. Pretty impressive and amazing on big GUI apps like Evolution and openoffice.org2-writer. #!/bin/bash apt-rdepends -d $1 | dot -Gsize="48,48" -Tgif -Nfontsize=24 \ -o depends.graph.${1}.gif -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes." Molly Ivins
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