Hi, Then I am not sure what you intention here is.
Note that MacPorts has a policy of not using external libraries, as far as possible (apart from obvious system ones) so if you aim is to have a port that basically allows something externally externally to pretend to be something MacPorts provides, then no this is strictly not allowed. See for instance https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs> its the same deal as why we do not support using anything installed outside of MacPorts, from /usr/local cheers Chris > On 9 Sep 2018, at 3:46 pm, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > >> 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? > > No, I want the opposite. For example, I want to create a replacement > for `texlive-basic' that does nothing except fulfilling the > dependency. This is, after installing this dummy `texlive-basic', > `port' shall believe that `texlive-basic' is indeed installed. > > Ditto for all other `texlive-*' ports. Ideally, I would like to have > all this stuff in a single file, to be automatically created from the > actual list of `texlive-*' ports as in texlive-dummy-opensuse, > cf. > https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse/blob/ba0bc1e2f866c379f750046439b6f4e40725805f/Makefile#L61 > and following lines. > >> If so we have plenty of these in MacPorts. [...] > > Thanks; I've already seen such meta-packages. One of them is actually > `texlive' itself :-) > > > Werner
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