Re: pkg_add and remote packages

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:50:48PM +0200, Dieter Baron wrote:
> :         packages/foo-1.0.tar.gz
> :         packages/foo-1.0.pkg_summary
>
>   Hm, that would make it easier to update pkg_summary.  And it would
> eliminate the need to download the whole thing for just installing one
> package: download the *.pkg_summary file and you have the list of
> dependecies.

Not necessary. pkg_info -X already fetches only the meta data part of
the package (still large e.g. for tetex, but that's a different
question).

Joerg