Leaves but considering Build Dependencies?

[Clemens Lang]

Hi,

> Hi, I’m wondering if MacPorts has an equivalent to “port echo leaves” but
> which only returns ports which are not runtime OR build dependencies of any
> requested ports.  This would be useful so that a user wouldn’t need to
> manually set things like autoconf and cmake as “requested” in order to avoid
> accidentally removing these often-needed ports for upgrades.  As a user who
> upgrades regularly, I would consider build dependencies to be as important
> as runtime ones.

The port_cutleaves command (available via sudo port install port_cutleaves) has
a flag that supports keeping build dependencies.

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Clemens Lang