On Wednesday August 24 2016 15:40:27 Lawrence Velázquez wrote: > > But those Perl ports are always leaves (w.r.t. `cpuid`) because they are > > build dependencies. There's no need to revbump if you're just updating > > build dependencies. > > To be more specific, there's no need to revbump if the change in build > dependencies does not alter the build product.
And in this case there isn't even a need for the dependencies anymore; the new version builds fine after I deactivated the ports. Which, btw, didn't raise any errors about how `port:cpuid` depended on them. So no, apparently build dependencies are not recorded in the DB the same way runtime dependencies are. >From what I've been able to determine the package needs just *a* perl >interpreter >5.8 to execute a build script. The system perl does perfectly >fine for that purpose. R _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev