[Robert Lemmen] > so if anyone can think of good use cases for a tool that allows > analytics on the dependencies between entities in the debian space > (packages, bugs etc), then please send them my way. with a moderatly > long list of use cases, i could go on defining the query language...
One thing I would find useful to have more focus on, is how many duplicate libraries are installed as dependencies in the Gnome and KDE desktops. For Debian Edu, I notice for example four versions of libdb is needed (libdb4.5, libdb4.6, libdb4.7 and libdb4.8) and two versions of libjpeg (libjpeg62 and libjpeg8). This is a problem for Debian Edu because we try to squeeze as many useful packages as possible on a DVD, and duplicates like that waste space. :) So, if you could start with the desktop tasks from tasksel and find all such duplicates, it might be useful to get migrations to newer library versions in place to save space on the DVDs. Happy Hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flwrua930t....@login1.uio.no
