Pacvis

is Article description::a tool to graphically display dependency graphs of the portage tree. It can show graphs of the installed packages on the system as well as show merge conflicts.

Usage
uses and vis.js to display portage depedency graphs. The graphs are based on the portage depclean tree or the emerge -p @world tree.

Invocation
To show a dependency graph of all installed packages run the command below and open a web browser to the indicated address.

can take command line arguments to show a preview of what an emerge command would do. The command below will show a graph of all the packages that would be added or updated as a result of the equivalent emerge. In addition, it will show all packages that depend on the updated package.

To see what a complete system reinstall would look like, run: