xmlto depends on texlive, which has caused some problems because it adds annoyingly large dependency chains to some ports (see #26335 & #26271) that use it to build documentation. Worse, texlive itself depends on some ports that use xmlto, meaning that they need to push documentation into a variant to avoid dependency loops.
I'm wondering if we can do something about this... My understanding (which is based mostly on having read the xmlto webpage today, so please correct me if you know better!) is that xmlto uses dblatex to generate printable PDF documentation, but some ports are just using it to build manpages or HTML documentation. Can move xmlto's dblatex/texlive dependencies into a variant, or better yet a separate port? I see that on my Debian and FreeBSD systems, xmlto makes its TeX dependencies optional. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
