Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:00:37 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphing installed ports Message-ID: <87547.1385244037@server1.tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <D5AD0E8D-2BB8-48CC-9ED6-52933D3212F8@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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In message <D5AD0E8D-2BB8-48CC-9ED6-52933D3212F8@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote: >The following script >http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/check_pkg.py >does the job you want plus other things, Thank you! >but it was written for the old package >system (i.e. it looks under /var/db/pkg). That's OK. I am still using that. >By the way i noted that as soon as you have a fair number of ports = >installed, you get >so many arrows in the diagram that you cannot see anything, rendering = >the idea quite useless. Well, that is interesting. I have a dim recollection that there is/was s theorem in the fields of software science to the effect that the greater the number of interconnections (e.g. between functions) within a given program, the more likely it was to have bugs. I'll have to go and do some googling now and refresh my memory about that. Regards, rfg
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