On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:52:26AM -0700, Bob Bagwill wrote: > 1. ask the pkgsrc developers to add a "help" target that would output a > short blurb and list of the other targets in a package? See the proposed pkgsrc man page the other day. IMO this doesn't belong into the system, but the pkgsrc guide or a man page. > 2. have a "show-depends" target that would show all the dependencies, > and their installation states, and conflicts? The first part is done by "show-depends-dirs" and "show-all-depends-dirs. pkg_chk might help for that latter. > 3. be able to set a setting that would inhibit doing a fetch/install for > all dependencies? Use DEPENDS_TARGET for that. > 4. get a hint about how big a packages and all its dependencies will be? Does this really matter? First of all, this is highly platform dependent. It also changes all the time. If you want a rough estimate, check the binary packages. Joerg