can we see details of dependencies before committing to an install?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 08/08/2015 17:52, Lester Ingber wrote:
> I do not see any way we can see details of dependencies before committing
> to an install?
>
> For example, if I want to install Cygwin Octave, I can click on several
> packages.  When I  continue to install, I have a page of dependencies,
> like a lot of libs,that should also be installed.  That would be OK if
> I could accept these, but before committing to an install, go back and
> at least see the sizes of these dependencies.
>
> One good reason is if I want to uninstall Octave, I am then stuck with
> a lot of those dependencies that are not purged.  I do not know if there
> is anything like a "purge" tool for Cygwin?
>

there is a tiny package cygcheck-dep,
that can provide the dependency and the recursive dependency :

$ /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep -S -R octave

  octave: recursively requires ( base-cygwin bash ca-certificates 
coreutils cygwin dash desktop-file-utils dri-drivers gamin gawk 
ghostscript ghostscript-fonts-other ghostscript-fonts-std 
gsettings-desktop-schemas libamd0 libarpack0 libattr1 libaudio2 libbz2_1 
libcamd0 libccolamd0 libcholmod0 libcolamd0 libcom_err2 libcrypt0 
libcurl4 libcxsparse0 libdb5.3 libedit0 libexpat1 libfam0 libffi6 
libfftw3_3 libFLAC8 libfltk1.3 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 
libgfortran3 libGL1 libgl2ps1 libglapi0 libglib2.0_0 libglpk36 libGLU1 
libgmp10 libGraphicsMagick++11 libGraphicsMagick3 libgs9 libgsm1 
libgssapi_krb5_2 libhdf5_10 libICE6 libiconv2 libidn11 libintl8 
libjasper1 libjbig2 libjpeg8 libk5crypto3 libkrb5_3 libkrb5support0 
liblapack0 liblcms1 liblcms2_2 libllvm3.5 liblzma5 libmetis0 libmng1 
libmpfr4 libncursesw10 libogg0 libopenblas libopenldap2_4_2 
libopenssl100 libOSMesa8 libp11-kit0 libpaper-common libpaper1 libpcre1 
libpng16 libqhull_6 libqrupdate0 libqscintilla2-common libqscintilla2_11 
libQtCore4 libQtGui4 libQtNetwork4 libQtOpenGL4 libquadmath0 
libreadline7 libsasl2_3 libSM6 libsndfile1 libssh2_1 libstdc++6 
libsuitesparseconfig0 libtasn1_6 libtiff6 libumfpack0 libuuid1 libvorbis 
libvorbis0 libvorbisenc2 libwebp5 libwmf027 libX11-xcb1 libX11_6 libXau6 
libxcb-glx0 libxcb1 libXcursor1 libXdmcp6 libXext6 libXfixes3 libXft2 
libXi6 libXinerama1 libxml2 libXrandr2 libXrender1 libXt6 p11-kit 
p11-kit-trust sed shared-mime-info terminfo tzcode which zlib0 
_update-info-dir )


I would say the octave is on the heavy side as it uses a
good quantity of math and graphic libraries.
Cygcheck is on the the tiny side


$ /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep -S -R cygcheck-dep

  cygcheck-dep: recursively requires ( base-cygwin bash bzip2 
ca-certificates coreutils cygwin libattr1 libbz2_1 libffi6 libgcc1 
libgmp10 libgnutls28 libhogweed2 libiconv2 libidn11 libintl8 
libncursesw10 libnettle4 libp11-kit0 libpcre1 libreadline7 libstdc++6 
libtasn1_6 libuuid1 p11-kit p11-kit-trust sed terminfo wget zlib0 
_update-info-dir )


Regards
Marco




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