> > I was thinking the simple way to do it would be "install all packages". > Add every available to the install list, check the dependencies, but > don't actually download or install the packages. The dependency > resolver algorithm may not do this efficiently but it would at least > give some indication of incompatibilities between repositories and with > the current installed packages. you don't need the packages to do this, though. just the pkg metadata. > Is the metadata format described anywhere? Since it is in XML, it would > be good to have a DTD. look at the samples and dtds at: http://linux.duke.edu/metadata/ -sv
