On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Dieter Baron wrote:
>> Please explain. Do yourself, what make(1) already do today?
>
>  More or less.  We may be able to use make for (part of) this, if we
> have a target that (a) deinstalls all packages that are not
> dependencies of the package to be built, (b) installs all
> dependencies, (c) builds the package.

See pkgsrc/mk/bulk's bulk-install (or bulk-package, if you want to 
deinstall the package afterwards). Be careful not runing this out of the 
blue as it DOES (a) :-)


  - Hubert