Why all this GARBAGE WARE for one single app?

[Richard L. Hamilton]

Not some scam, actual dependencies, direct or indirect.

Think of it as feature creep, not by MacPorts but by the app developers. And also, anything they depend on, they don't have to re-invent.

But yelp is the help viewer (with capabilities beyond a text editor) that gedit expects to be available, and gstreamer is something yelp indirectly requires.

Some apps will ultimately require most of the GTK (or KDE) desktop infrastructure. Only for the 1st that requires that, subsequent ones use the existing copy, so building will be faster for them.

You may not like reality, but ranting is rude.

> On Nov 25, 2023, at 22:37, 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?