* David Maxwell (david@fundy.ca) [000317 01:17]:
| On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:23:26PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
| > Is there a way to query what other packages
| > are required for a particular package without installing it?
| 
| It wouldn't be hard to make a target like 'make fetch-list' that 
| printed a 'plain' list of required packages.
| 
| Anyone listening have a use for that feature?

Yepp, sounds interesting. Sometimes I would have liked to have that, but
just used fetch-list. Perhaps a plain list for all required packages with
some mark (perhaps an asterisk before the items) that denotes missing or
existing distfiles for the packages?

Bye,
Bjoern

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