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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:38:34 -0700
From: Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster 
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In nuntio <20030901132021.F11735@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>, Chris Dillon divulgat:
>I break as many depedencies as I possibly can out of a particular
>piece of software into separate distribution packages with their own
>dependency chains.  The FreeBSD ports/packages system just happens to
>already do this to a high degree, because it is a good idea.

Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies"
ports (or more to the point, packages)?  I think it might be pretty
useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites"
can be installed at once.

Greg Shenaut