Creating a dependency chart to find out the core-packages.

[Narendra Sisodiya]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Narendra Sisodiya <nare...@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

Following command will list out the dependency of a package. 

sudo apt-get install --dry-run eclipse  | sed -n '/The following NEW/{n; :a; $!N;s/\n[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]/ /;ta;P;D;}'
sudo apt-get install --dry-run expect  | sed -n '/The following NEW/{n; :a; $!N;s/\n[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]/ /;ta;P;D;}'

Similar method - 

http://www.debianadmin.com/recursively-lists-package-dependencies-using-apt-rdepends.html

apt-rdepends

I am doing this because, I want to create a dependency chart. If we know the packages which are commons in most of the package then we can create a base version of Linux. On top of baseLinux  we can bundle application to have one click system.

Suggestions invited !

[Sharad Birmiwal]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Narendra Sisodiya

To generate charts, especially from scripts, i'd suggest you try
graphviz. I've found it to be very handy for such tasks.

SB

[Narendra Sisodiya]

Thanks, Initially I am dumping all the things into mysql-database, so that I can query and find base packages!  Thanks again !