port_cutleaves

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Because it would require adding maybe 10 ports to depends_build to  
EVERY port that depends on X11.

True that binary packages don't need the *proto packages, but (for  
example) every package that has depends_lib port:gtk2 is going to need  
to add about 10 ports to depends_build if you make the protocol  
headers build dependencies.  Do you want to manage that?  I sure  
don't.  That's why they were added to depends_lib to the xorg-libs  
that need them to build.  That way anything that needs that lib will  
have the headers it needs as well.


On Jun 19, 2009, at 13:34, nox wrote:

> Why is that overkill? I thought the ultimate goal of MacPorts was  
> binary packages. Binary packages won't need the *proto packages. I  
> think we should not move these to lib deps.
>
> Le 19 juin 09 à 19:44, Jeremy Huddleston a écrit :
>
>> They *were* build deps, but they were moved into lib deps.  This is  
>> because too many ports need them to build, and adding build deps  
>> for all those X11 protocol headers in each port that needs them was  
>> overkill.
>>
>>
>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 08:14, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Le 19 juin 09 à 03:40, Perry Lee a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>>>>> thanks to port_cutleaves, i uninstalled all ports that i didn't  
>>>>> need :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> and today, doing "port -u upgrade outdated", it reinstalls  
>>>>> them :-/
>>>>>
>>>>> xorg-xtrans
>>>>> xorg-bigreqsproto
>>>>> xorg-xcmiscproto
>>>>> xorg-xextproto
>>>>> xorg-xf86bigfontproto
>>>>> xorg-inputproto
>>>>> xorg-kbproto
>>>>> gperf
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> port_cutleaves still find them as "leaves"
>>>>
>>>> I'd guess those are build dependencies rather than library  
>>>> dependencies.
>>>
>>> ok,
>>> so why uninstall them, since i'll need it later ?
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