> So the advantage is that you can just call it by very few
> steps no matter how many dependencies there might be. And if
> you later need to update it you call 'make update' similarly
> and it chugs along (albeit slowly) and takes care of every-
> thing.

Gan, thank you for that informative response. As I said in my original e-
mail I am building from source, i.e. make install clean. I have not had one 
problem building any of the packages, which says a lot for the maintainers. 
I went back and looked a 'man make' but didn't see anything about 'make 
update'.
I am currently downloading the newest pkgsrc. I will then try the 'make 
update' on the new src files.

PS I had already bookmarked you site. <g>

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