Download the generator
(requires Python)

GraphViz for Mac OS X
(for viewing DOT files)

Sample graph (PDF)
(all of 10.4 stable)

Sample graph (DOT)
(10.4 base only)

Ever since I began writing package descriptions for Fink, I've wondered what the dependency graph would look like for the entire Fink package tree. I never got around to doing anything about it until I started studying GraphViz and discovered the pydot package. That's when I realized how easy it would be to generate graphs of Fink dependencies. The results can be found in the links on the left. Just run the generator and give it a directory or two containing Fink package descriptions (.info files), and it will generate a DOT file of package dependencies that can be viewed with GraphViz.

The first sample graph on the left is the entire 10.4 stable tree (too large to be useful but fun to look at anyway). The second graph, also shown above, is only the base section of the 10.4 tree.