[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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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26235#comment:2>
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