Re: [Synaptic-devel] Feature Request

[Michael Vogt]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:49:40AM -0400, Benjamin Wall wrote:
> Can we have a dependancy tree view where we can see the list of packages
> in tree form where there are multiple roots, and packages can appear in
> more than one branch.. I want to be able to see at a glance what
> packages are dependant upon a certian other package so that I can prune
> the whole branch, or just for fun.  I would think this should be easy
> seeing as apt must generate such a tree to work properly... I think.

So you would like to have something like this?:
-------------------------8<--------------------------------
+adduser
  +debconf
     +perl5.6
     +dialog
  +passwd
+apt
 +libc6  
[..]
-------------------------8<--------------------------------
I like this idea, implementing it will be a bit hard though.

I'm planing to implement a somewhat similar scheme for quite some time
now, but only the first level of dependencies:
-------------------------8<--------------------------------
+adduser
  +debconf
  +passwd
+apt  
 +libc6
[..]
-------------------------8<--------------------------------

The problem is not getting the information, the problem is to
implement it so that the information is available in a GtkTreeModel
friendly way. This can be tough. 

As I said, I like the idea :)

> Thanks you guys make great software,
Thanks!

bye,
 Michael

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