Pacgraph

A lightweight server.

My primary computer.

My old desktop.

It draws a pretty picture of your installed packages.

To try it yourself, get the code. It will generate an SVG. If Inkscape or imagemagick is installed it will also render a PNG. It might seem a little slow, but it's many times faster than Graphviz.

Right now Arch is the only well supported distro, but writing new loaders is pretty easy. There is partial support for Debian.

Stuff supported from the command line:

Want to make only an SVG, no PNG? pacgraph --svg Just want a quick summary? pacgraph --console

Custom colors? Each of these takes one color, such as

pacgraph -b "#808080" -l "#ffffff"

-b --background
-l --link
-t --top
-d --dep

Font size can be set with pacgraph -p 10 100 where the first number is the smallest point size, and the second is the largest.

Distro is chosen through -m / --mode. Current supported options are arch (which graphs your installed packages) and arch-repo packages),arch-repo (which graphs every offical package in the repositories) and debian (which parses dpkg output). Do not be alarmed if arch-repo takes a few minutes.

For more info, check out the beta's thread or the github page.