curious dependency issues

[Eric Gallager]

I was under the impression that the "depends:" pseudo-portname and the
"depof:" portname were two separate things...



On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:19 PM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hm, I guess I got "depends:" from suggestions in messages on this list.
> Using "port installed depof:gcr" gcr is not listed, so that is more
> reasonable. "depof:gtk3" does not list gconf, and "depof:gconf" does list
> gtk3. So it seems that "depends:" is buggy. Maybe it should be removed if
> it has been supplanted by "depof:".
>
> David
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <pixilla at macports.org>wrote:
>
>> On Apr 7, 2014, at 9:12 AM, David Strubbe <dstrubbe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I found two strange things in using 'port installed depends:'. The
>> 'gcr' port appears to depend on itself, and gconf and gtk3 appear to depend
>> on each other. Does this make sense? Is it a bug in base or the Portfiles?
>>
>> I don't know if "depends:" is a bug but it is not documented in "man
>> port" whereas "depof:" is:
>> port installed depof:gcr
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
>>
>>
>
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