On Nov 29, 2013, at 05:40, Peter Danecek <peter.dane...@bo.ingv.it> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 29, 2013, at 9:06 , Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
> 
>>> +    # testing only
>>> +    depends_run-append      port:py${python.version}-nose \
>>> +                            port:py${python.version}-pep8 \
>>> +                            port:py${python.version}-mock \
>>> +                            port:py${python.version}-pil
>>> +}
>> 
>> How do you mean, “testing only”? If you mean the test phase, as in “sudo 
>> port test”, this port doesn’t enable the test phase, and even if it did, 
>> runtime dependencies aren’t guaranteed to have been installed by the time 
>> the test phase runs.
> 
> No testing is not done during build or installation. So these dependencies 
> are strictly not necessary. However, when you would like to test the package 
> (after installation) you would need them. I discussed this on the list, and 
> was advised to install them as well, because the are small.
> 
> So I did, but marked this explicitly, should the comment be reworded?

Ah, I missed or forgot that mailing list discussion. It’s fine as it is then.


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