On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 18, 2010, at 18:39 , Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: >> >> Now, a lot of these were installed as a result of installing other >> things. All of the docbooks, for example. Automake and autoconf. >> Getopt. These were requested/needed by something else. >> >>> From what I understand about "leaves", they should not be regarded as >>> leaves. >> >> So, am I misunderstanding a leaf, or are leaves being miscalculated? > > They are build tools; as such, they are only dependencies *while* another > port is being built. Afterward, unless you want to build something else > that needs them, they are leaves. >
I filed a ticket about this: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/25182 Attached to this message is a patch to port.1 that could clarify this in the man page... Scott
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