Exa port dependencies

[Ken Cunningham]

I have long thought the doc variants should never be the default.

Lots of bloat and extra deps and build errors.

But I know others feel differently.

I know I can set -doc in variants.conf, but then you’re building everything.


K

> On Jun 9, 2023, at 04:01, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
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>> The list below is the current list of build dependencies when I do a
>> port install of "exa +doc+git". The list seems pretty ridiculous though.
>> I just cloned the exa repository and did a cargo build outside macports.
>> None of these dependencies are required.
> The vast majority of those are dependencies of pandoc, which is used by the exa port's doc variant. They won't be installed when installing exa from a binary archive. If you need to build locally and don't want all these deps, you can use -doc.
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> - Josh
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