On 20/06/2007, at 11:13, Matthias Scheler wrote:

>
> 	Hello,
>
> why does the "pkg_developer" meta package depend on the "pkg_chk"  
> package?
> I know what "pkg_chk" does and I have it installed on all of my  
> system.
> But I can't see the relevance for developing packages.
>

Oops!  As the original committer of that meta package I wanted to  
reply to this, but I forgot, until now...  sorry.

pkg_chk is useful during development because of its -N option:

      -N        For each installed package, look if there is a newer  
version
                noted in ${PKGSRCDIR}/doc/TODO.  Good for finding  
packages to
                update.

Some bored developers can use it to look for things to do :-)

Kind regards,

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>