>>>>> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:28:03 -0400, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> said:
> Unless the toolchain is updated to allow *distributions* and not > *modules* to be listed as prerequisites, this is pretty much the best > that can be done. (Barring a "development" packages index, which > would probably be an optional thing for users to enable.) Bundles come to mind. Distro Foo can depend on Bundle::Bar and Bundle::Bar can directly demand AUTHOR/Devel-Oper-3.14_159.tar.gz I think nobody has ever tested if it works as expected but I'd expect it to work. -- andreas