>
> * New-style packages can now be installed with dependency checking by 
> running "make pkgname". This applies to all types (standard, optional, 
> experimental).
>

About this, Volker raised an important point:

Technically, an optional GPL-compatible package can have a GPL-incompatible 
package as a dependency, but this *must never happen*.

If it did, one could "silently" install a non-GPL package without knowing, 
and that the GPL does not allow that.

Nathann

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