On Wednesday August 24 2016 21:05:29 Mihai Moldovan wrote: >Uhm but that won't lead to rebuilds...
But there's no need to rebuild here, just as there wouldn't be a reason to rebuild if the perl packages were a runtime dependency. >to make that perl package a leaf. It's not strictly required, but my personal >opinion is to do that to enable users to get rid of packages they don't need >anymore (and at least I don't like to remove build dependencies, as they will >be >pulled in again later anyway.) Are build dependencies counted in the number of dependents of a port, and if so, why. And if so, is that also the case when a port is installed from a binary package - and if *that* is not the case, how is that difference justified? R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
