[MacPorts] #26235: libzzip depends on xmlto depends on texlive depends on everything

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#26235: libzzip depends on xmlto depends on texlive depends on everything
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 Reporter:  moala@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal           |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports            |     Version:  1.9.1                                
 Keywords:                   |        Port:  libzzip xmlto                        
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Comment(by dports@…):

 I don't know anything about xmlto, unfortunately, but...

 I see it depends on texlive (the metaport) and texlive-htmlxml. I know it
 needs the latter (not surprising!) so the only question is whether we can
 replace the texlive dependency with something more specific. Probably, but
 I don't know what. I've been trying to move towards more focused texlive
 dependencies in general.

 But even if we do that, we're still going to wind up with a dependency on
 texlive-bin, which builds all the binaries for texlive, and has all the
 library dependencies. (It would be great to break that up, but would take
 a lot of work. And no guarantees that most of the resulting ports won't
 still depend on everything.)

 IMO, doc variants are a good idea for exactly this reason.

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