<div dir="ltr">Not at all. I suspect that the port you’ve chosen is a little bit uglier than most because the default version<div>of gedit is `gedit +python310+x11`, which has 557 direct and transitive unique dependencies (including</div><div>"yelp", the default GNOME help browser) for build or runtime (298 are runtime only). The variant</div><div>`gedit +python310+quartz` has 373 direct and transitive unique dependencies for build or runtime (144</div><div>are runtime only).</div><div><br></div><div>If you were running this on a Linux system, you would still have all of these libraries and executables</div><div>installed, but you wouldn't notice it because they're (usually) part of the graphical system you would already</div><div>have installed.</div><div><br></div><div>The Homebrew installation of Gedit only has ~70 runtime dependencies, but a large part of that I think is</div><div>that the packages are broken up differently between Homebrew and MacPorts — and it appears that the</div><div>Homebrew package is what MacPorts would call the <a class="gmail_plusreply" id="plusReplyChip-1">+quartz variant.</a></div><div><a class="gmail_plusreply"><br></a></div><div>MacPorts works differently than Homebrew, and while I still use both, I am shifting more and more to</div><div>MacPorts.</div><div><br></div><div>One could have a discussion as to why the `+x11` variant of gedit is the preferred variant for MacPorts,</div><div>but that's different from what was originally asked.</div><div><br></div><div>-a</div><div><a class="gmail_plusreply"><br></a></div><div><a class="gmail_plusreply"><br></a></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 10:37 PM Mark Dm <<a href="mailto:markosjal@gmail.com" target="_blank">markosjal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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 dependencies but how can gstreamer be a dependency for a text editor?<div><br></div><div>WTF now it is installing something called "yelp" <br><div><br></div><div>I remember now I tried MacPorts years ago and ended up having to reformat my Mac to get all the speed back after the couple of apps I installed. I regret trying it again and thing it is all a bunch of GARBAGE </div></div><div><br></div><div>Is this juist a method by which you can install garbageware onto a mac for unsuspecting users?</div></div>
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