Why does libunistring depends on texlive?

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Fri Jan 13 11:44:51 UTC 2017


On 2017-1-13 22:42 , Vincent Habchi wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I was in the process of upgrading ffmpeg when I suddenly jumped out of my chair: the build was trying to pull in the bloated texlive source.
>
> I traced that spurious dependency to libunistring. Commenting out the dependency on texlive-basic does not produce any side effect (AFAIK): the package compiles and installs fine.
>
> Since libunistring has no official maintainer, I’m going to push my Portfile version unless someone objects to it.

Blame says the dependency was added in response to 
<https://trac.macports.org/ticket/47424>.

- Josh


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