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An Operating System (OS) combines multiple interdependent software packages,which usually have their own independently developed architectures. When amultitude of independent packages are placed together in an OS, an implicitinter-package architecture is formed. For an evolutionary effort,designers/developers of OS can greatly benefit from fully understanding thesystem-wide dependency focused on individual files, specifically executablefiles, and dynamically loadable libraries. We propose a framework, DepEx, aimedat discovering the detailed package relations at the level of individual binaryfiles and their associated evolutionary changes. We demonstrate the utility ofDepEx by systematically investigating the evolution of a large-scale OpenSource OS, Ubuntu. DepEx enabled us to systematically acquire and analyze thedependencies in different versions of Ubuntu released between 2005 (5.04) to2023 (23.04). Our analysis revealed various evolutionary trends in packagemanagement and their implications based on the analysis of the 84 consecutiveversions available for download (these include beta versions). This study hasenabled us to assert that DepEx can provide researchers and practitioners witha better understanding of the implicit software dependencies in order toimprove the stability, performance, and functionality of their software as wellas to reduce the risk of issues arising during maintenance, updating, ormigration.

Analyzing the Evolution of Inter-package Dependencies in Operating Systems: A Case Study of Ubuntu