Dear Werner, On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 08:24, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > trying > > port mpkg lilypond-devel > > creates a 1.5GByte bundle, which is far too large to be used for > distribution. Is there a possibility to reduce the number of packages > that gets bundled? > > As far as I can see, the main problem is that build and run > dependencies are intermixed in Portfiles: If `foo' is necessary for > building and running, it gets only listed in `depends_lib'.
That's a clear bug in a Portfile specification (rather than in MacPorts). Any dependency that's not required for running should be depends_build[-append] and any dependency that's not required for building the port should be depends_run[-append]. There's also depends_test, depends_fetch, ... (maybe more). > Is it possible to provide a finer granularity? For example, > `lilypond-devel' needs `texlive' for building only but not for > running. In that case just move it from depends_lib[-append] to depends_build[-append] (in a PR, probably) > Or may `port > mpkg' gets a new command line option to specify a list of packages > that should be omitted (together with its dependencies). I'm pretty sure there is a lot of room for improvement of port mpkg. Maybe open a ticket for base in our Trac? (Improvements to mpkg might potentially even be suitable for GSOC projects.) Mojca
