Ugly Huge BSD Monster

[Greg Shenaut]

In nuntio <20030901132021.F11735 at 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