On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 12:09:05PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > No really, what is the right way to recursively list the > dependencies of a given package? pkg_info doesn't seem to > do that natively (and the above attempt only works for > installed packages indeed). Is that a design decision, > say becuase of ambiguous dependencies?
Yes, it is a design decision. Dependencies have a bit of fuzz, and packages only care about their first-level dependency. Actually, pkg_add -n will also give you fairly reasonable size estimates. If it's all that's needed, I can very easily tweak it a bit to stop caring about package details.... it doesn't need to read further from the archive to get sizes, so it shouldn't be complicated.
