rubber dependencies

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu>:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 06:47, Michael Williams <mike at pentangle.net> wrote:
> >
> > Why then does the MacPorts rubber package depend on 142 packages,
> > including the MacPorts perl, python, texlive and X11 systems ($
> > port rdeps rubber | wc -l)? Is this intended?

> 
> Yes, it is intended.  Directly, Rubber only depends on Python and
> TexLive.  Those 142 other packages are brought in when you fully
> follow the dependencies of Python and TexLive.

If you're feeling adventurous, it should be possible to write your own
dummy texlive port to override the macports one, following
instructions here:

http://guide.macports.org/#development.local-repositories

This probably only makes sense for really big ports like texlive,
though. If you try to do this too much, you only let yourself get
sucked into some nightmare maintenence scenario.

- Harald