Why does autoconf.cmd remove autotools?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2017-06-29 09:17, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> It turned out that autoconf.cmd removes dependencies on autoconf,
> automake, libtool ...
> 
> Is there a good reason for that? Wouldn't it be safer to simply leave
> the dependencies there, in particular if they have been listed by the
> portfile?

The default dependencies could be wrong when choosing another executable.

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/17809

Rainer