Breaking long dependency chains

[Freek Dijkstra]

Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

>> * Keep track of manually installed and automatically installed packages.
>> This ensures that it easier to start over, and that no
>> no-longer-required dependencies remain installed
> 
> $ port installed requested
> $ port installed leaves
> 
> MacPorts has had binary packages for Snow Leopard for a little while now.
> http://packages.macports.org/

This is awesome, kudos to whoever took the time to implement these two!!

>> Why would netpbm need to *compile* subversion just to
>> *fetch* netpbm?
> 
> Does it?
> $ port rdeps netpbm

Yes, it is a fetch dependency:

% port deps netpbm
Full Name: netpbm @10.47.31_0
Fetch Dependencies:   subversion
Build Dependencies:   perl5
Library Dependencies: zlib, jpeg, tiff, libpng, jasper, jbigkit, libxml2

Regards,
Freek