From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 23 22:00:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A31BB72 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7B02D76 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:00:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 846F03B00D for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:00:37 -0800 (PST) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Graphing installed ports In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:00:37 -0800 Message-ID: <87547.1385244037@server1.tristatelogic.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:00:42 -0000 In message , Michel Talon 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