Jan> Richard Coleman <coleman(a)math.gatech.edu&gt; writes: Jan> I thought the SUMO tarball was exactly that? mb> Richard's point is that the SUMO tarball is not actually a mb> package itself, but a different sort of animal. Package mb> manipulation commands, for example, don't work on it (unless mb> your only package manipulation tool is `tar'). This is related to the oft-expressed desire for better runtime dependency tracking. Ie, Richard's megapackage could be implemented as a virtual package depending on the common binary packages. Where's karlheg when we need him? :-) -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."