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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote:
>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.

Maybe I'm missing something but how would that be an improvement on
what FreeBSD does now?  If I try to install package X, it will
automatically install dependencies A, B and C, as well as their
dependencies.

Peter