James K. Lowden [Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 01:39:40AM -0400]:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 04:19:48 +0200, Micha? Pasternak
> <michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl> wrote:
> > It should be a piece of cake to implement such functionality: you could
> > create a meta-package pkgsrc/mail/mail-transport-agent which would
> > install a MTA you declared in /etc/mk.conf (or install ,,exim'' by
> > default) - but the question is: what for? Are NetBSD users really so
> > brain-dead, that pkgsrc should install a MTA (not to mention default
> > NetBSD MTA), when they want to install procmail?
> 
> Well, it might be nice if, say, Gnome required the metapkg gnome-wm rather
> than some particular window manager.  Not that I can see quite how to get
> there from here.

I think GNOME is a bad example. 1.4 AFAIR comes with sawfish bundled, 2.x
comes with metacity. You can still use any WM with any X application, but
that's not the point.

Virtually, all packages which need XFree86 should include WM as a dependency
- but that would be insane. For example, NetBSD's XFree86 already comes with
twm; also please remember, that pkgsrc is not NetBSD-only product, and those
other-OS' users could already have their WMs installed. Also, suppose I
install X packages on an application server and my workstations already have
WMs installed - why should I need a WM on the server?

If you could provide examples where such feature would be helpful, I suppose
we could move along with the discussion to tech-pkg. Until then, I suppose,
that implementing features nobody really needs is no use.

-- 
mp