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

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Mon Feb 18 16:39:43 PST 2013


On Feb 18, 2013, at 18:32, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:

> 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.

What about the ports that declare build dependencies on doxygen? Do any of them use this diagramming capability?



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