port leaf becoming requested

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 18, 2017, at 02:52, db wrote:

> I wanted to install texinfo which is actually a leaf of coreutils, but `sudo port install texinfo` doesn't make it a requested port, as I would expect. Is it intended behaviour? I suppose, I could either uninstall leaves and reinstall it, or use setrequested.

Yes, installing a port should mark it requested. I'm unclear what happened in your situation.