Graph of transitive dependencies

[marcosh]

Currently flora provides information about the dependency and the dependents of every single package.

It would be nice to know whether a package A depends somehow on a package B, meaning that there is a chain of dependencies connecting A and B.

I'm not sure what would be the best way to visualise such information. Some potential options:

• visualise all the possible dependency paths between A and B. Could be just a list of strings, where every string is a dependency path from A to B. Could be a directed graph showing all the paths from A to B
• visualise all the transitive dependencies of A
• visualise all the transitive dependents of B

I don't know the internals of flora and, in particular, I don't know how the dependency information are stored.

Probably the best way to retrieve the data about dependency graphs would be to store at least some data in a graph database and use to query all the paths from A to B.

[tchoutri]

Thankfully the database engine is perfectly capable of performing such queries. :)

[marcosh]

awesome, so this is not an issue