@Peter Pretty close. That script saves me several hours of scripting effort. The ideal would be for someone who has EVERYTHING installed to run that script and make the list available.
I would change the title of that page to (or have an addition of) : Top-Level Packages Thank you, Peter. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Bonivart Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 3:23 PM To: Questions and discussions Subject: Re: [csw-users] list of top level packages? 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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
