8.5. Getting Project Information

The ComPact project manager can display several kinds of information about a project and its packages that might be of interest to the user.

Check parses the project description file, locates all packages and lists information about the location and type of each package found. It also displays a list of packages that are used but not contained in the project. This may be okay if the packages are part of a global installation that is not subject to the configuration management of projects, but you may also simply have forgotten to add some package.

Dependencies lists the dependencies of all packages of the project.

Update Seq. displays the order in which ComPact would invoke build operations on the packages of the project, which is defined by the topological sort of the dependency relation.