Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps

[Matthew Seaman]

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Doug Barton wrote:
> Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
>> Again, the idea here was not to change anything in the ports 
>> themselves: just what was presented in the INDEX,
> 
> Ok, then I think it's incumbent on you to explain what the benefit
> would be.

   * Reduce the size of the INDEX

   * Make the index data directly answer the sort of questions most
     likely to come up in general use.

The latter is, of course, subjective but I think knowing the answers
to both 'what do I need to run this software?' and 'what else do I
need to install this software?' is more useful than what we have at
the moment.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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