Do We Have depends_test?

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Mon Apr 4 11:47:57 PDT 2011


Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Apr 4, 2011, at 06:25, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> 
>> I know we've got just about every other phase covered but is there a depends_test?
> 
> No, but we probably should. I've seen several ports committed in the past months with comments that certain dependencies should really be depend_test if we had it. It would also let us remove most of the +test variants from ports, most of which just add dependencies needed for testing.

A common case being the py*-cairo ports, that needlessly drag in py*-numpy (and atlas, and gcc...)

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27369

--anders



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