[MacPorts] #36459: doxygen @1.8.1: graphiz dependency problem?

[Eric A. Borisch]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Feb 18, 2013, at 18:32, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Feb 18, 2013, at 14:26, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Why does doxygen have a dependency on graphviz, anyway? I'm aware that
> Doxygen can use Graphviz if it's available,
> >>
> >> The second sentence is the answer to the first.
> >
> > Sure, but as far as I can tell, it's a runtime thing, and Graphviz is
> not *necessary* unless you actually want Doxygen to generate advanced class
> diagrams. And if you want that, you can install graphviz whenever you feel
> like.
> >
> > http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/diagrams.html
> >
> > As it stands, installing doxygen forces you to pull in graphviz and its
> huge dependency tree, even if you have no intention of making diagrams.
>
> What about the ports that declare build dependencies on doxygen? Do any of
> them use this diagramming capability?
>
>
FWIW, FreeBSD's port requires graphviz [1] and many Linux RPMs don't [2]
... so there's no consensus to be had by looking for what others are doing.

I use doxygen with graphviz, but most of utility exists without it. The
differences between the dependencies with [3] and without [4] are striking.

Perhaps a default variant (+diagrams)?

This doesn't address if any other ports depending on doxygen use the dot
capability, but it would be easy enough for those ports to declare the
graphviz requirement themselves. A default doxyfile (doxygen -g output)
currently has HAVE_DOT set to NO, regardless of its presence at build- or
runtime.

 - Eric

[1] http://www.freshports.org/devel/doxygen
[2]
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/devel/rawhide/x86_64/d/doxygen-1.8.3.1-1.fc19.x86_64.html
[3] https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jqatlydyxpjydy/doxygen.png
[4] https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahedegu0m28qh5m/doxygen_no_graphviz.png
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