On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:26:22 -0500
Przemys?aw Pawe?czyk <pp@kv.net.pl> wrote:


>=20
> > Creating meta-packages with pre-created themes and configurations
> > would be useful for some. Please submit.
>=20
> Please, tip me where to read about it?
> I've run hurridly pkgsrc docs but I didn't find what would be of
> great conviniency to meta-pkg creations. Namely meta-pkg-buld.sh
> where I could enter all pkg names of interest and the script would do
> the rest.
>=20
> Only then I could gather packages of some sort, additional graphics
> or data files into one entity and create meta-package.
>=20
That would be a nice package to create...

More seriously -- creating a metapackage is indeed non-obvious.  I just
built one (not yet committed -- there are still some issues) and it
took several tries and checks of how existing metapackages work.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb