> > And of course there are common situations that neither approach handles
> > very well. If I install openldap-server it will install openldap-client
> > as a dependancy. If I later uninstall openldap-server I may need to keep
> > openldap-client. Or not. So deleting package dependancies should not be
> > fully automated.
> 
> Good, you're on the right direction.
> 
> > Perhaps in addition to pkg_add tagging as above, there could be a way to
> > manually tag packages as explicity installed...
> 
> Go on, think a bit more, and you'll have the full design I just *sketched*
> overhead... ;-)

I will think a bit more about it, and see how close I come. ;)

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