Przemys=B3aw Pawe=B3czyk <pp@kv.net.pl> writes:

> That sounds not only strange but ominous... I've always thought
> about meta-package as a sort of pkg_add runing against a file with
> package names in it. Nothing more. Dependencies were to be
> downloaded automatically as usual.

For a meta-pkg example, see pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/gnuradio.  This does two
things:

  depend on a bunch of packages, so building gnuradio gets them all

  provides some shared definitions (in Makefile.common)

If what you want is to install a list of packages, then look at
pkg_chk (in pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_chk).