[MacPorts] #36459: doxygen @1.8.1: graphiz dependency problem?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2013, at 14:26, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> Why does doxygen have a dependency on graphviz, anyway? I'm aware that Doxygen can use Graphviz if it's available,
> 
> The second sentence is the answer to the first.

Sure, but as far as I can tell, it's a runtime thing, and Graphviz is not *necessary* unless you actually want Doxygen to generate advanced class diagrams. And if you want that, you can install graphviz whenever you feel like.

http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/diagrams.html

As it stands, installing doxygen forces you to pull in graphviz and its huge dependency tree, even if you have no intention of making diagrams.

vq