On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Wyche, George             PW
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Fellow users,
>
> I have 325 CSW packages. Before I go puzzling out which ones are top-level 
> packages, is there an easy way to determine the list?
>
> Ideally, the many, many hundreds of CSW packages all serve top-level 
> applications like firefox. Do we have a list of such?
>
> At the moment when I am asked "What do you have from CSW that I could use?" I 
> am reduced to replying with "What do you want?" because no one wants to hear 
> about all the various, small dependencies.. just: firefox, ssh, gimp, ... the 
> high level stuff.
>
> I cannot see how this can be figured out automatically since some high level 
> package "A" might require some high level package "B" AND VICE VERSA. Those 
> 2, therefore, would not make it into the list of top-level packages (even 
> though they should be).
>
> So has anyone already made a fairly complete list of this kind?
>
> I do have a practical situation where such a list would be very handy.

Maybe this could be useful:

http://www.opencsw.org/2010/09/which-csw-packages-have-been-installed/

/peter
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