On Apr 13, 2014, at 14:24, mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: > On 13 Apr 2014, at 21:12 , Joshua Root wrote: >> What would this warning say, and where would it go? And have you read >> the help for port rdeps? > > Ah, sorry, now I see that there is indeed an option "--no-build" there. > > But still, one could make use of an option like “--with-build” for the > rdependents command! :-) > > A use case: > > If one tries to figure out whether a certain port tree is fully > distributable > one doesn’t want to be surprised by a suddenly non-distributable > build-dependency somewhere in there. > > That is why I am so pernickety. :-)
By definition, a build dependency isn’t needed at runtime, so you wouldn’t distribute it, so you wouldn’t care about build dependencies’ distributability, would you? _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev