Opportunistic (broken) build dependencies? (gdbm)

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Apr 26 07:15:32 UTC 2017


On 2017-4-26 10:32 , Marius Schamschula wrote:
> However, gdbm is not in the dependency chain of gawk, so I don’t know 
> why MacPorts wants to install it before gawk.

There is no dependency declared, so if you're upgrading all outdated 
ports, the ordering of these two is effectively random (as it's based on 
what other ports are outdated).

- Josh


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