Breaking long dependency chains

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Mar 18, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>>> Why would netpbm need to *compile* subversion just to
>>> *fetch* netpbm?
>> 
>> Does it?
>> $ port rdeps netpbm
> 
> $ port rdeps netpbm
> The following ports are dependencies of netpbm @10.47.31_0:
>  subversion

I take it subversion is picked up via "fetch.type svn".

Anyone have the history of why portfetch.tcl depends on port:subversion rather then "bin:svn:subversion"?


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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