In article <19990306001913.A23734@debian.org> you wrote: > Would it be easier to just find the list of packages necessary to > build everything, and say 'ok, this is the list you need for a build > system'. That doesn't help in the process of porting to a new architecture, when you need to know what to build in what order to get from nothing to something... which is the build dependency case I care the most about. Bdale