[MacPorts] #32339: mpkg seems to include some installation dependencies

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#32339: mpkg seems to include some installation dependencies
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 Reporter:  rogerdpack@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect                |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  base                  |     Version:  2.0.3                                
 Keywords:                        |        Port:                                       
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

 * cc: ryandesign@… (added)


Old description:

> When running
> $ port mpkg mplayer-devel
>
> I noticed that a few oddities are included, like bzip2, perl, gettext,
> which might not all should be included.
> Sorry I couldn't seem to easily pinpoint it further, as mpkg with simpler
> packages seemed to work just fine.
> Thanks.
> -r

New description:

 When running
 {{{
 $ port mpkg mplayer-devel
 }}}

 I noticed that a few oddities are included, like bzip2, perl, gettext,
 which might not all should be included.
 Sorry I couldn't seem to easily pinpoint it further, as mpkg with simpler
 packages seemed to work just fine.[[br]]
 Thanks.[[br]]
 -r

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Comment:

 Remember to use WikiFormatting please.

 bzip2 is a compression library. MPlayer presumably uses it to
 compress/decompress things, so it can't be removed. You can infer this by
 noticing that bzip2 is listed as a library dependency of mplayer-devel,
 and confirm it by examining mplayer-devel's files with the `otool -L`
 command.

 gettext is an internationalization library. It is used to provide user
 interface strings in different languages. I don't know whether MPlayer
 itself uses it, but its dependencies do, so it cannot be removed. MacPorts
 policy is to provide full-featured software, so we don't provide an option
 to turn natural language support off; see comment:ticket:32304:2.

 perl is a scripting language. I'm not sure in what capacity it is used,
 but it is listed as a library dependency of glib2 (which means it is used
 by glib2 at build time and at runtime), and glib2 is a library dependency
 of liboil, which is a library dependency of mplayer-devel, so it can't be
 removed.

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