On 4 Dec 1999, Julian Assange wrote:

: There are people better qualified than me to do this. In
: particular I'd like to hear the views of our primary
: bsd.pkg.mk hackers. hubert? agc? christos? et al, what do
: you think?

make(1) may be able to do one-way dependencies admirably well, but it's
difficult to do it the other way round in an automatic fashion without some
hackery - that is, "drop to singleuser" isn't particularly simple.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)