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diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.yo b/doc/apt-cache.8.yo index aaa995c73..5ce5c48a9 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.yo +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.yo @@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ itemize( it() show it() showpkg it() depends - it() pkgnames + it() pkgnames + it() dotty ) Unless the -h, or --help option is given one of the above commands @@ -166,6 +167,22 @@ argument is a prefix match to filter the name list. The output is suitable for use in a shell tab complete function and the output is generated extremly quickly. This command is best used with the bf(--no-generate) option. +dit(bf(dotty)) +bf(dotty) Takes a list of packages on the command line and gernerates output +suitable for use by dotty from the GraphVis +(http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/) package. The result will be +a set of nodes and edges representing the relationships between the +packages. By default the given packages will trace out all dependent packages +which can produce a very large graph. This can be turned off by setting the +APT::Cache::GivenOnly option. + +The resulting nodes will have several shapse, normal packages are boxes, +pure provides are triangles, mixed provides are diamonds, +hexagons are missing packages. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped +[leaf packages], blue lines are prre-depends, green lines are conflicts. + +Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages. + enddit() manpageoptions() |