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On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 18:52 +0100, Esben Haabendal wrote:
> Well, it might be possible to minimize the disruption for a transitional
> period by carefully specifying some catch-all build-time package
> dependencies pulling in all packages for recipes not ported yet.

Yes, that's the sort of thing I was thinking of.  It isn't even totally
obvious to me that specifying individual packages is any better than
"all packages from recipe X", since with the former you then have a
potential maintenance headache if files get moved from one package to
another.

p.