A simple request (MkHexGrid) turned into ...

[Marius Schamschula]

Any dependencies are updated independently of the dependent port.

All versions of python were recently updated, as were several components of X11.

Marius
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> On May 14, 2022, at 10:39 AM, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2022-05-14, at 8:38 AM, Marius Schamschula <lists at schamschula.com <mailto:lists at schamschula.com>> wrote:
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>> Mkhexgrid has not been updated upstream since 2007.
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> Exactly. So I'm trying to understand how installing something so old/basic like that caused a reinstall of so many pieces in Macports.
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> I was expecting little more than downloading it, and maybe one or two libraries.
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>> Marius Schamschula
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>>> On May 14, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Michael <keybounce at gmail.com <mailto:keybounce at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> So I thought I'd install a simple little hex map generator. Mkhexgrid.
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>>> Hasn't been updated in years, should be simple, right?
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>>> Three versions of Python (37, 38, and 39)
>>> A full reinstall of X
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>>> I mean, I can sort-of understand perl, one python, and ssl -- maybe it needed to rebuild something, and needed updated ssh fetching and rebuilding the compilation environment.
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>>> But everything else? And three versions of python? And not just python 2 vs python 3.
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>>> I'm assuming that somewhere, some graphical library was being used that could output to X as well as to ascii/curses. I just have no idea what. 
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>>> All I wanted was to generate a PNG hexmap.
>>> At least it was able to fetch binaries for pretty much everything, and not compile everything.
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