port leaf becoming requested

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On 18 Apr 2017, at 14:43, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> Ok fine. So texinfo got installed as a dependency of coreutils. You didn't ask for it directly, so it was not marked requested.
> Then, after that, you asked MacPorts to directly install texinfo. Since it was already installed, MacPorts did nothing.
> If you want to mark an already-installed port requested, use "port setrequested".

I thought `port install` of a leaf port would mark it as installed and be MacPorts expected behaviour. Anyway, something to take into account when automating an installation.