On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:56:44PM -0800, Daniel E. Hassler wrote:
> Is it reasonable to assume all of the dependencies for a package
> should also be available as either packages or via ports?

Yes. Some ports have licenses which prohibit redistribution as
packages, though, so N(ports) > N(packages).

> I'm trying to install p5-Mail-Box-2.018.  - "p5-Mail-Box-2.018:Can't 
> find p5-Convert-BinHex-1.119"
> I can't find p5-Convert-BinHex-1.119 in either packages or ports.
> p5-MIME-tools-5.420 has the same dependency.

How are you looking?

    $ man 7 ports
    $ cd /usr/ports
    $ make search name="BinHex"
    Port:   p5-Convert-BinHex-1.119p1
    Path:   converters/p5-Convert-BinHex
    Info:   module to extract data from Macintosh BinHex files
    Maint:  The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
    Index:  converters perl5
    L-deps:
    B-deps:
    R-deps:
    Archs:  any

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