I'm still not quite sure how to build or structure the tree, though. I was thinking of using a hash with each package name as a key as a way to avoid extra calls to the function to extract dependencies and to avoid getting a package's dependency tree twice (2 packages have a dependency on the same package):

my $deps = { 'mainpackage-1.0' => [ 'dependency1-1.3',
                                    'dependency2-2.3',
                                    'dependency3'],
             'dependency1-1.3' => [ 'dep1_of_dep1' ],
             'dependency2-2.3' => [ 'dep1_of_dep2',
                                    'dep2_of_dep2',
                                    'dep3_of_dep2' ],
             'dependency3' => undef };

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This way, I have easy access to each previously referenced packages's primary dependencies without another function call. I still can't figure out how to put it all together into a full dependency tree, though. I'm still not sure I'm going about this the right way.

In reply to Re: Re: building a dependency tree by agaffney
in thread building a dependency tree by agaffney

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