<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then I am not sure what you intention here is.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">its the same deal as why we do not support using anything installed outside of MacPorts, from /usr/local</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cheers Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Sep 2018, at 3:46 pm, Werner LEMBERG <<a href="mailto:wl@gnu.org" class="">wl@gnu.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">If I understand what you are asking correctly, you are asking how to<br class="">setup a port that does nothing other than depend on other ports, so<br class="">installing it drags in all the dependencies, in one go?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">No, I want the opposite. For example, I want to create a replacement<br class="">for `texlive-basic' that does nothing except fulfilling the<br class="">dependency. This is, after installing this dummy `texlive-basic',<br class="">`port' shall believe that `texlive-basic' is indeed installed.<br class=""><br class="">Ditto for all other `texlive-*' ports. Ideally, I would like to have<br class="">all this stuff in a single file, to be automatically created from the<br class="">actual list of `texlive-*' ports as in texlive-dummy-opensuse,<br class="">cf. <a href="https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse/blob/ba0bc1e2f866c379f750046439b6f4e40725805f/Makefile#L61" class="">https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse/blob/ba0bc1e2f866c379f750046439b6f4e40725805f/Makefile#L61</a><br class="">and following lines.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">If so we have plenty of these in MacPorts. [...]<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Thanks; I've already seen such meta-packages. One of them is actually<br class="">`texlive' itself :-)<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> Werner<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>