Superfluous dependencies

Charlie Kester corky1951 at comcast.net
Sat Mar 12 22:35:32 UTC 2011


On Sat 12 Mar 2011 at 14:21:35 PST Mark Linimon wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:12:34PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote:
>> I'm not aware of any tool that will display a similar dependency tree
>> for a port *before* it is installed.
>
>http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portdependencytree.py
>
>Note: it's running a live set of queries on the tree, so it's slow.

Thanks, the exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.

Is the underlying sourcecode available somewhere?  The speed is
acceptable, but I'd rather not be burdening the portsmon server
everytime I want to run a query.  If it was running against my local
copy of the portstree, then nobody else would be inconvenienced.


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