A Plea to Reduce Dependences (e.g., for swig)

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:23 PM, M.E. O'Neill wrote:
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> Many MacPorts packages depend on other MacPorts packages of software that already exists on a Mac OS X system, 

yep.

see https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs

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