deactivating build deps

Jan Stary hans at stare.cz
Tue Jan 2 22:22:40 UTC 2018


On Jan 02 14:37:00, ryandesign at macports.org wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2018, at 13:33, Jan Stary wrote:
> > 
> > Deactivatng e.g. man warns me that 
> > 
> >  Note: It is not recommended to uninstall/deactivate a port that has
> >  dependents as it breaks the dependents.
> >  The following ports will break: lirc @0.9.4d_3
> > 
> > It's a build dependency, not a run dependency or a lib dependency.
> > Does the deactivate/uninstall differentiate between those?
> 
> Yes, MacPorts differentiates. I don't know why you would see that message when deactivating a build dep.  
> 
> Your pull request shows that you originally added man as a library dep not a build dep. If you installed lirc in that state, that's what got recorded in the registry and would account for the message. 

Yes, it was an artifact of that mistake. Thanks.

	Jan



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