On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:04:58PM +0200, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> * felix winkelmann <fe...@call-with-current-continuation.org> [110901 11:58]:
> > > Maybe adding a simple clause like:
> > > 
> > > (depends-on-external "libexif" source: "http://libexif.sf.net";)
> > > 
> > > to the .meta file (of libexif in this case) which can be queried by 
> > > chicken-install.
> > > 
> > > So the user has a chance to get a complete list of all dependencies in
> > > advance instead of having to trip on each one by one.
> > > 
> > > Does this make sense?
> > 
> > Yes, indeed. I'd suggest "foreign-depends" (but it doesn't
> > matter). The property-value should be free-form, but have one element
> > per dependency.
> 
> Ok, I will start hacking on this.
> 

Thank you Christian, I would appreciate this feature too.

-Alan
-- 
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