From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 17 7:31:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5439137B42C for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from eskimo.com (ripper@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA21832 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:30:39 -0800 Received: (from ripper@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id HAA14131; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:30:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 07:30:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202171530.HAA14131@eskimo.com> From: Ross Lippert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_info Ideals Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was wondering if this wheel has been invented already and I just haven't been looking for it hard enough. proposed wheel: that pkg_info have an option to reports 'ideal' packages, that is, packages which are not requirements of any other packages. This would allow a person to quickly find the minimal set of packages he/she would need to install to build their workstation. -r To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message