Ok, of several recent messages that made me go yeah! this one pushed me 
over the edge.

Michal wrote:
> distribution/universe. I have also succesfully loaded packages into a
> fresh Squeak, with prerequisites automatically taken care of.

Yeah!! :) Thanks for working on this.

>       it will download and install them. There is some hitch about
>       some older dependency on gk.1 

Might be http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=1344 .