On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:52:51PM +0100, Jachym Holecek wrote:
> Someone else wrote:
> > 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)

	What's really needed is a way to mark a package as "installed by user"
vs. "installed due to dependency".  Of course, just listing the leaf packages
as they are now gets you most of the way to that.  I think pkgdepgraph can
be made to generate a list like that.

eric