Any dependencies are updated independently of the dependent port. All versions of python were recently updated, as were several components of X11.
Marius -- Marius Schamschula > On May 14, 2022, at 10:39 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2022-05-14, at 8:38 AM, Marius Schamschula <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Mkhexgrid has not been updated upstream since 2007. > > Exactly. So I'm trying to understand how installing something so old/basic > like that caused a reinstall of so many pieces in Macports. > > I was expecting little more than downloading it, and maybe one or two > libraries. > > >> >> Marius >> -- >> Marius Schamschula >> >> >> >> >>> On May 14, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Michael <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> So I thought I'd install a simple little hex map generator. Mkhexgrid. >>> >>> Hasn't been updated in years, should be simple, right? >>> >>> Three versions of Python (37, 38, and 39) >>> A full reinstall of X >>> >>> I mean, I can sort-of understand perl, one python, and ssl -- maybe it >>> needed to rebuild something, and needed updated ssh fetching and rebuilding >>> the compilation environment. >>> >>> But everything else? And three versions of python? And not just python 2 vs >>> python 3. >>> >>> I'm assuming that somewhere, some graphical library was being used that >>> could output to X as well as to ascii/curses. I just have no idea what. >>> >>> All I wanted was to generate a PNG hexmap. >>> At least it was able to fetch binaries for pretty much everything, and not >>> compile everything. >>> >> > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce <http://youtube.com/keybounce>
