Pacvis

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pacvis is a tool to interactively display dependency graphs of the portage tree using a web interface. It can show graphs of the installed packages as well previews of emerges.

Emerge

pacvis is available in the GURU overlay which can be added through either Layman or Eselect/Repository. GURU is an official Gentoo overlay that is maintained by Gentoo users. Assuming eselect repository is set up, the GURU overlay can be added by:

root #eselect repository enable guru

Then pacvis can be emerged:

root #emerge --ask app-portage/pacvis

Usage

pacvis uses tornado and vis.js to display portage depedency graphs. The graphs are based on the portage depclean tree or the tree resulting from an emerge -p <arguments> command.

Invocation

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

user $pacvis

Start PacVis at http://localhost:8888/
use --browser to open a browser automatically.

pacvis can take emerge 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.

user $pacvis --browser --update --changed-use --deep @world

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

user $pacvis --browser -e @world

See also

• Project:GURU — an official repository of new Gentoo packages that are maintained collaboratively by Gentoo users
• Q applets — a collection of small, fast Portage query utilities written in C.
• Gentoolkit — a suite of tools to ease the administration of a Gentoo system, and Portage in particular.
• Useful_Portage_tools — provides a list of Gentoo-specific system management tools, notably for Portage, available in the ebuild repository.