Package Manager improved

March 29, 2009 — BarryK

I fixed a bug that caused the Puppy Package Manager to crash.

I added a "View hierarchy" button in the dependencies window. I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid Puppy and was looking at the Gxine package from the Ubuntu "Universe" repo. The problem is, it has a lot of dependencies, and just being presented with a list of dependencies is not helpful if you want to think what ones might not really be needed.

So, I put in this "View hierarchy" button, which shows the relationship between the dependencies. So, for one missing dependency, its missing dependencies are shown. For Gxine this is how it looks:

HIERARCHY OF DEPENDENCIES OF PACKAGE gxine_0.5.903

Format of each line: 'a-dependent-package: missing dependencies of a-dependent-package'



libmozjs0d:  

libxine1: libxine1-misc-plugins libxine1-x libxine1-console 

libxine1-x: libdirectfb-1.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-xv0 libxine1-bin libxvmc1 



    libdirectfb-1.0-0: libts-0.0-0 

    libsdl1.2debian: libsdl1.2debian-alsa 

    libxcb-shape0:  

    libxcb-shm0:  

    libxcb-xv0:  

    libxine1-bin:  

    libxine1-console: libaa1 libcaca0 libcucul0 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libxine1-bin 

    libxine1-misc-plugins: libmagick10 libmodplug0c2 libmpcdec3 libpulse0 libsmbclient libspeex1 libwavpack1 libxine1-bin 

    libxine1-x: libdirectfb-1.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-xv0 libxine1-bin libxvmc1 

    libxvmc1:  



        libaa1: libgpm2 

        libcaca0: libcucul0 

        libcucul0:  

        libdirectfb-1.0-0: libts-0.0-0 

        libmagick10: libdjvulibre21 libgraphviz4 libilmbase6 libopenexr6 

        libmodplug0c2:  

        libmpcdec3:  

        libpulse0: libcap1 

        libsdl1.2debian: libsdl1.2debian-alsa 

        libsdl1.2debian-alsa: libdirectfb-1.0-0 

        libsmbclient: libtalloc1 libwbclient0 

        libspeex1:  

        libts-0.0-0:  

        libwavpack1:  

        libxcb-shape0:  

        libxcb-shm0:  

        libxcb-xv0:  

        libxine1-bin:  

        libxvmc1:

Seeing the hierarchy, maybe I can see something that isn't really needed. Well, hierarchy or no hierarchy, Gxine is a bit depressing... maybe I'm going to compile my own ffmpeg/xine/gxine especially for Ubuntu!

Comments

Jaunty Puppy
Username: happypuppy
Any plans for a Jaunty Puppy? The beta is quite stable,much more than the final Intrepid release. And it includes tons of new hardware support / drivers.

Re: Jaunty
Username: BarryK
"Of course. That's one of the main features of Woof, the ease with which we should be able to move up to the most current compatible-distro. I plan to wait for Jaunty to be released though.

Tags: woof