why not but something like that straight into the pkg_admin or similar tool.

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote:
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:59:34 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Nicholas Ricketts <nightshade@phreaker.net>
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
> Subject: Re: pkg depends
> 
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Nicholas Ricketts wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering if there is a way to check each package and make sure
> that
> > all packages required by that package(dependancies) are installed. I
> see
> > that "pkg_info -an" will show all required packages for each package
> but
> > not sure how to make sure that they are installed. Any ideas??
> 
> $ pkg_info -an | egrep -v 'Information fo|^$|Requires:' | sort -u | xargs
> pkg_info -e
> pkg_info: No matching pkg for teTeX-bin2>=2.0.2.
> 
> (I see I found a typo in html2ps DEPENDS; I BCC'd maintainer.)
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
> 
>