> >> How do other folks deal with such issues?
> >
> >Always check for important messages _after_ you've installed a package,
> >not during the install:
> >
> >$ /usr/sbin/pkg_info -D firefox-gtk2
> 
> That doesn't work very well for dependent packages installed 
> automatically -- they've long-since scrolled by.

Using PKGSRC_MESSAGE_RECIPIENTS might help.

> High on my wishlists for pkgsrc: an automatically-generated log of 
> things I installed at the top level, so I know what to rebuild, and a 
> log of what gets built by any given invocation of make, for precisely 
> the reason I give above.

That would be nice. For the first point, maybe it's enough to scan the
dependency tree for a list of "root" packages? (ie. those whose dependecies
generate all the tree)

	Regards,
		-- Jachym Holecek