Dependencies relationship to default variants?

[Tabitha McNerney]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

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> Dependencies are mainly set on ports. There are also other dependency
> types,


>From the documentation, I was under the impression that there are only two
classes of dependencies: port and file dependencies: <
http://guide.macports.org/#reference.dependencies.types > but I do see your
point (text below) about non-explicit mention of a system dependency such as
Xcode.


> but dependencies on system stuff is currently not specified. For
> example we don't add a dependency on Xcode to each and every port :-)


Ok. But how many instances of "system stuff" do we have to keep track of
besides Xcode in regard to dependencies that are not very easily *
identifiable* as wither a port of file dependency?

Thanks,

T.M.

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