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Emdebian dependency calculations

Work-in-progress

Dependencies can be hard to track when building a whole new set of packages. I have tried creating programs to track these paths but the recursion gets out of control. Frans Pop has created a bash script that can produce graphs of the dependency maps and although this method only works with the Debian packages and not the different dependencies of the Emdebian packages, it is nevertheless useful in calculating which packages need to be built to achieve the Emdebian dependency tree.

In the graphs below, the version numbers are as of September 2007 and have little further significance to Emdebian.

Gtk2+ dependency map

gtk2 dependency map

GPE dependency map (libgpewidget1)

GPE dependency map

Built using debtree by Frans Pop.

In time, I'll expand this page to detail progress in preparing the Emdebian packages to support these dependencies in Emdebian, hopefully with some way of showing how the Emdebian dependency tree differs from Debian.

Neil Williams