Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[[LoN]Kamikaze]

Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello [LoN]Kamikaze,
> Sunday, May 13, 2007, 3:53:29 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
> LK> the decision has been made long ago
>   I want to understand: WHY has such decision been made?
> 

Then I suppose you should take a look at CVS and have a look way back in time
when ports were first conceived.

My guess is that it makde some things easier to implement, like 'make clean' or
package fetching with all dependencies.