emacs-app dependencies

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 00:59, Garth Corral wrote:

> Okay, I must be missing something.  Since the carbon emacs port is
> seemingly broken on leopard, I decided to check out emacs-app.  While
> this does build on leopard, I was somewhat dismayed to see the
> dependencies in the Portfile. It's not a huge issue but the one thing
> that concerned me was the coreutils dependency.  It's just a whole
> load of stuff that's I'd rather not have on my box if I don't need to.
>
> Initially I thought it might be a build-only dependency, in which case
> I could just remove it after install.  It is in the Portfile in
> depends_lib, though, so port complains when I do that.  I could force
> it but I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it.
>
> Anyway, I decided to look into the dependencies and I can see no
> reason why this is needed.  I groveled the source tarball but couldn't
> find any explicit dependency on this.  In fact, it builds and installs
> just fine with:
>
> $ sudo port install emacs-app depends_lib=""
>
> and so far it seems to run just fine.  What am I missing.  It would be
> nice to remove these dependencies if they are really not necessary.
>
> Anyone?

The coreutils port was added as a dependency of emacs-app in r21091  
by Chris Scharver. The log message doesn't say why (other than to say  
"adding several build dependencies" (though they're declared as  
library dependencies)). Cc'ing Chris.