> I thought the first package with any patches or distfiles
> automatically pulls in the digest dependency when you type
> 'make'?

I thought so, too, but I don't often get chances to try on completely 
virgin systems.

>> Two: after doing a "make install" in a directory, doing a "make update",
>> even if that package is not installed (for instance, if it was deleted or
>> if the "make install" was done in a chroot) basically does a "make clean",
>> but does not install the package.
>
> That's a bug. Please report it with send-pr(1).

Will do. Thanks.

John