Re: Why all this GARBAGE WARE for one single app?

2023-11-25 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Not some scam, actual dependencies, direct or indirect. Think of it as feature creep, not by MacPorts but by the app developers. And also, anything they depend on, they don't have to re-invent. But yelp is the help viewer (with capabilities beyond a text editor) that gedit expects to be

Re: Why all this GARBAGE WARE for one single app?

2023-11-25 Thread Bill Cole
On 2023-11-25 at 22:37:18 UTC-0500 (Sat, 25 Nov 2023 19:37:18 -0800) Mark Dm is rumored to have said: I am trying to install gedit on mac , installed macports, then the xcode requirements rand the command to install gedit. Now about 209 minutes later I am still seeing GARBAGE like

Re: Why all this GARBAGE WARE for one single app?

2023-11-25 Thread Austin Ziegler
Not at all. I suspect that the port you’ve chosen is a little bit uglier than most because the default version of gedit is `gedit +python310+x11`, which has 557 direct and transitive unique dependencies (including "yelp", the default GNOME help browser) for build or runtime (298 are runtime only).

Why all this GARBAGE WARE for one single app?

2023-11-25 Thread Mark Dm
I am trying to install gedit on mac , installed macports, then the xcode requirements rand the command to install gedit. Now about 209 minutes later I am still seeing GARBAGE like GstreamerXXX and GstreamerYYY still installing . THIS IS NUTS! I NEVER ASKED TO INSTALL GSTREAMER. I know there are