In regard to: Re: Requires: python(foo) = bar, Jeffrey Johnson said (at...:
Meanwhile the very ida of running multiple versions of ruby and modules out of a per-user shadow tree in ~/.rvm drove me to some serious drinking to forget what I saw ;-)
Ruby, in general, has inspired beverage consumption in me.
rpm-5.3.11 is "production", rpm-5.4.x will be rather active until mid-late summer preparing for ROSA 2012.
I'll give 5.3.11 a whirl in a couple weeks. Thanks for the pointer.
Using graphviz on Mac OS X (used to be very very nice, dunno if still actively distributed in *.dmg) and choosing PDF as a display was the _ONLY_ means I could find to handle large dependency graphs.
I was hoping for PDF display, but that was a no-go for me on both Solaris 10 and Linux. The only option that actually worked at all was png, and it wasn't very usable.
I still think a tree map rather than nodes <-> edges is a better easier to understand display format for "packages" because of the ability to map multiple attributes into size/color/adjacency/labels/shapes. At some point all you have is a huge snarly yarn ball with dotty.
That's exactly what I had, and I was only tracking manually specified BuildRequires dependencies on my Solaris system. It was a mess... Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
