On Aug 18, 2010, at 20:28, Bertrand Scherrer wrote:

>> There isn't a general way to find out what port will install what file if 
>> that port is not already installed.
> 
> I think it would be a good thing to add, in order to only install the ports 
> that are truely necessary ... that's my two cents on the topic. 

It is a bit complicated to do, since we would have to maintain a database 
somewhere of lists of files installed by ports, by all combinations of 
platform, architecture, and variants. We have no automatic build infrastructure 
at this point, so at this time we have no source for generating that info. We 
should work on creating the automatic build infrastructure for other reasons 
anyway, then we can basically get what you want for free.


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