From: syl@therockgarden.ca   
      
   On 2024-11-14, Gamgee wrote:   
      
   >> even in your proposed usecase things like PHP's image support with GD   
   >> will dip into the X package set for image handling.   
   >>   
   >> your script misses this entirely.   
   >   
   > SR> The script misses that, because that's not what it's intended for.   
   >   
   > I haven't kept up with (and can't at this time go back and look) the   
   > prior conversation in this thread, but wondering if this script you're   
   > talking about does something similar to what I said above; or is more   
   > fine-grained than that and does more detailed "filtering" of what gets   
   > installed...   
      
   Nothing of the sort.  This script attempts to list what packages a given   
   installed package depends on.  For example ...   
      
   If I want to install (for example) amanda (the backup software, of   
   which I have a locally created package installed) on a system with an   
   otherwise minimal install, I would need to ensure that the following   
   packages are also installed:   
      
      : hecate[syl] ~; src/slackware/listdeps.sh amanda   
      aaa_libraries-15.0-x86_64-19   
      amanda-3.3.9-x86_64-1   
      brotli-1.0.9-x86_64-7   
      c-ares-1.19.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      curl-8.10.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      cyrus-sasl-2.1.28-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      e2fsprogs-1.46.5-x86_64-1   
      flex-2.6.4-x86_64-5   
      glib2-2.70.3-x86_64-1   
      keyutils-1.6.3-x86_64-3   
      libffi-3.3-x86_64-3   
      libidn2-2.3.2-x86_64-1   
      libnsl-1.3.0-x86_64-3   
      libpsl-0.21.1-x86_64-4   
      libssh2-1.11.1-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      libtirpc-1.3.2-x86_64-1   
      libunistring-0.9.10-x86_64-3   
      nghttp2-1.61.0-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      openssl-1.1.1zb-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      openssl-solibs-1.1.1zb-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      pcre-8.45-x86_64-1   
      readline-8.1.002-x86_64-1   
      zlib-1.2.13-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      zstd-1.5.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0   
      
   (that's probably all indeed installed on my hypothetical minimal   
   installation system anyway, but I hope that it illustrates the purpose   
   and use of my script.  It's not so much dependency *tracking*, as it is   
   dependency listing ...)   
      
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   Sylvain Robitaille                                syl@therockgarden.ca   
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