Benny,
Benny Siegert writes:
> For things that are packaged via CPAN, I wrote a script I called
> "cpan2port" for a different ports tree (MirPorts), which tracks down
> dependencies and creates a package for each one semi-automatically,
> calling itself recursively if needed. I made a presentation about it
> on FOSDEM (see http://slideshare.net/bsiegert/). I could adapt it for
> pkgsrc if you are interested.
I think that would be really great. If you don't have commit access,
I'm glad to work with you to test it and import it into pkgsrc
(perhaps renamed as pkgtools/cpan2pkg?).