xorg-libX11 now depends on groff, why?

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:15, Kastus Shchuka wrote:

> ...
> I checked dependencies of xorg-libX11 and it was true, now groff is listed as a dependency:
> 
> port deps xorg-libX11
> Full Name: xorg-libX11 @1.3.2
> Build Dependencies: ..., groff
> ...
> I wonder why a library has to depend on a typesetting package? Is it by mistake?

Notice it's a build dependency.  It's used to build the documentation.

> ...
> The version in 59718 is 1.3.1, the one that I had installed already without groff. Is that possible that port file changes without incrementing version number?

Yes.  The earlier version used the system's version of groff to build documentation, but there is a bug with the version of groff on Leopard and Tiger... so MP's groff needs to be pulled in.

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