On Feb 20, 2008, at 00:59, Garth Corral wrote:

Okay, I must be missing something. Since the carbon emacs port is seemingly broken on leopard, I decided to check out emacs-app. While this does build on leopard, I was somewhat dismayed to see the dependencies in the Portfile. It's not a huge issue but the one thing that concerned me was the coreutils dependency. It's just a whole load of stuff that's I'd rather not have on my box if I don't need to.

Initially I thought it might be a build-only dependency, in which case I could just remove it after install. It is in the Portfile in depends_lib, though, so port complains when I do that. I could force it but I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it.

Anyway, I decided to look into the dependencies and I can see no reason why this is needed. I groveled the source tarball but couldn't find any explicit dependency on this. In fact, it builds and installs just fine with:

$ sudo port install emacs-app depends_lib=""

and so far it seems to run just fine. What am I missing. It would be nice to remove these dependencies if they are really not necessary.

Anyone?

The coreutils port was added as a dependency of emacs-app in r21091 by Chris Scharver. The log message doesn't say why (other than to say "adding several build dependencies" (though they're declared as library dependencies)). Cc'ing Chris.