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Old 16th April 2009
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The same procedure is used for dependencies as well as the "calling" package. So, I will guess that whatever the problem was, it was transitory.

While I understand your complaint, I cannot tell, from the information you've supplied, why the initial installation attempt hung. There are diagnostic tools that you might have used -- and because the pkg* tools are written in perl, even perl debugging traces -- but as you now have it installed, I guess it's moot.

Should you have problems with future package installations, start with pkg_add -v, then consider using top, systat, .... even perl -d if used carefully. This last is described well in perldebtut(1).
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