Hi, If I understand what you are asking correctly, you are asking how to setup a port that does nothing other than depend on other ports, so installing it drags in all the dependencies, in one go ? If so we have plenty of these in MacPorts. The first that springs to mind for instance is
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/x11/xorg-proto/Portfile <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/x11/xorg-proto/Portfile> One trick is the port has to install *something* in order to work, for instance with the binary tarballs. A common trick is to create a README or similar… cheers Chris > On 9 Sep 2018, at 3:16 pm, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My computer for daily use is an openSuSE GNU/Linux box; for TeX > processing, however, I'm directly using tlmgr.[*] Regardless of this I > don't have any dependency issues with `zypper', openSuSE's package > manager, since I'm using the nifty `texlive-dummy-opensuse' package, > > https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse.git . > > This package tells zypper that all TeXLive packages provided by > openSuSE are installed, without installing them actually. > > I would like to have something similar for MacPorts. My questions: > > * Has anyone already written such a dummy package? > > * If not, how can I construct `empty packages' that only exist to > fulfill package dependencies? > > > Werner > > > [*] To be more precise, I don't use tlmgr at all but directly > TeXLive's SVN repository. However, this distinction doesn't > matter here.
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