proposal: pear install-deps command

Hi, I would like to propose a new command, install-deps. This command would work exactly like pear install, except that it would automatically install/upgrade required packages specified in the <deps> section. It should also prompt to install/upgrade optional dependencies. I will be happy to implement this command when I return in July, if no one else is interested/has time. This would have obvious benefits for applications like phpDocumentor, as applications by definition rely on multiple packages. It would allow the reduction of size for a PEAR install by a factor of quite a lot (2.4 MB is rather large). It would allow the splitting of phpDocumentor into a core package, and several Converter sub-packages, each of which depends on phpDOcumentor. This way, a user looking for a PDF documentation generator could pear install-deps PhpDocumentor_PDF and it would automatically install the core of phpDocumentor. This will also simplify the Lite API proposal. phpDocumentor could depend on phpDocumentor-lite. Regards, Greg -- phpDocumentor http://www.phpdoc.org