On Feb 18, 2013, at 18:32, Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2013, at 14:26, Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Why does doxygen have a dependency on graphviz, anyway? I'm aware that 
>>> Doxygen can use Graphviz if it's available,
>> 
>> The second sentence is the answer to the first.
> 
> Sure, but as far as I can tell, it's a runtime thing, and Graphviz is not 
> *necessary* unless you actually want Doxygen to generate advanced class 
> diagrams. And if you want that, you can install graphviz whenever you feel 
> like.
> 
> http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/diagrams.html
> 
> As it stands, installing doxygen forces you to pull in graphviz and its huge 
> dependency tree, even if you have no intention of making diagrams.

What about the ports that declare build dependencies on doxygen? Do any of them 
use this diagramming capability?

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