On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>
>>> We should have a daily script that checks to see what packages are missing
>>> and complain to the pkgsrc developers list every day!
>>
>> I believe this is possible, now that we have "@blddep".  The easiest
>> way to use it, would be to remove any packages whose "@blddep" required
>> packages are missing.
>
> Newer dependencies (if the @pkgdep is a dewey dependency) don't qualify as
> satisfying the existence requirement?

Formally, always, but practically, maybe not. That's the "open-ended 
dependencies" issue.


Frederick