I just realized there is an important aspect to the ordering of installation that I think had been overlooked. If you pay attention to the policy it says a certain group of packages (Things in Base or of a high priority) should be assumed to exist and -work-. Ie perl, bash, sed, etc are required by almost all packages but there is no depends line.
Taking this in mind we should sort the installation by priority as well as dependancy, so if one of these special things is upgraded it should be unpacked and configured as soon as possible. Sound like a sane idea? If you ask me the more predictable the oder of installation the better off we will be. Jason
