On Feb 20, 2008, at 00:59, Garth Corral wrote: > Okay, I must be missing something. Since the carbon emacs port is > seemingly broken on leopard, I decided to check out emacs-app. While > this does build on leopard, I was somewhat dismayed to see the > dependencies in the Portfile. It's not a huge issue but the one thing > that concerned me was the coreutils dependency. It's just a whole > load of stuff that's I'd rather not have on my box if I don't need to. > > Initially I thought it might be a build-only dependency, in which case > I could just remove it after install. It is in the Portfile in > depends_lib, though, so port complains when I do that. I could force > it but I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it. > > Anyway, I decided to look into the dependencies and I can see no > reason why this is needed. I groveled the source tarball but couldn't > find any explicit dependency on this. In fact, it builds and installs > just fine with: > > $ sudo port install emacs-app depends_lib="" > > and so far it seems to run just fine. What am I missing. It would be > nice to remove these dependencies if they are really not necessary. > > Anyone?
The coreutils port was added as a dependency of emacs-app in r21091 by Chris Scharver. The log message doesn't say why (other than to say "adding several build dependencies" (though they're declared as library dependencies)). Cc'ing Chris. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
