<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></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="">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 ? If so we have plenty of these in MacPorts. The first that springs to mind for instance is</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/x11/xorg-proto/Portfile" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/x11/xorg-proto/Portfile</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One trick is the port has to install *something* in order to work, for instance with the binary tarballs. A common trick is to create a README or similar…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cheers Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Sep 2018, at 3:16 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="">My computer for daily use is an openSuSE GNU/Linux box; for TeX<br class="">processing, however, I'm directly using tlmgr.[*] Regardless of this I<br class="">don't have any dependency issues with `zypper', openSuSE's package<br class="">manager, since I'm using the nifty `texlive-dummy-opensuse' package,<br class=""><br class=""> <a href="https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse.git" class="">https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse.git</a> .<br class=""><br class="">This package tells zypper that all TeXLive packages provided by<br class="">openSuSE are installed, without installing them actually.<br class=""><br class="">I would like to have something similar for MacPorts. My questions:<br class=""><br class="">* Has anyone already written such a dummy package?<br class=""><br class="">* If not, how can I construct `empty packages' that only exist to<br class=""> fulfill package dependencies?<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""> Werner<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[*] To be more precise, I don't use tlmgr at all but directly<br class=""> TeXLive's SVN repository. However, this distinction doesn't<br class=""> matter here.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>