Why all this GARBAGE WARE for one single app?

[Austin Ziegler]

Not at all. I suspect that the port you’ve chosen is a little bit uglier
than most because the default version
of gedit is `gedit +python310+x11`, which has 557 direct and transitive
unique dependencies (including
"yelp", the default GNOME help browser) for build or runtime (298 are
runtime only). The variant
`gedit +python310+quartz` has 373 direct and transitive unique dependencies
for build or runtime (144
are runtime only).

If you were running this on a Linux system, you would still have all of
these libraries and executables
installed, but you wouldn't notice it because they're (usually) part of the
graphical system you would already
have installed.

The Homebrew installation of Gedit only has ~70 runtime dependencies, but a
large part of that I think is
that the packages are broken up differently between Homebrew and MacPorts —
and it appears that the
Homebrew package is what MacPorts would call the +quartz variant.

MacPorts works differently than Homebrew, and while I still use both, I am
shifting more and more to
MacPorts.

One could have a discussion as to why the `+x11` variant of gedit is the
preferred variant for MacPorts,
but that's different from what was originally asked.

-a




On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 10:37 PM Mark Dm <markosjal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to install gedit on mac , installed macports, then the xcode
> requirements rand the command to install gedit. Now about 209 minutes later
> I am still seeing GARBAGE like GstreamerXXX and GstreamerYYY still
> installing . THIS IS NUTS! I NEVER ASKED TO INSTALL GSTREAMER. I know there
> are dependencies but how can gstreamer be a dependency for a text editor?
>
> WTF now it is installing something called "yelp"
>
> I remember now I tried MacPorts years ago and ended up having to reformat
> my Mac to get all the speed back after the couple of apps I installed. I
> regret trying it again and thing it is all a bunch of GARBAGE
>
> Is this juist a method by which you can install garbageware onto a mac for
> unsuspecting users?
>


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