Have I misunderstood what leaves are?

Arno Hautala arno at alum.wpi.edu
Thu Jun 28 08:25:32 PDT 2012


On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A leaf is an *unrequested* port without dependents, i.e. the unwanted
> dependencies left behind when you remove a port that you explicitly
> installed (and hence had the requested flag set).

Also, build requirements like compilers that aren't required for the
ports operation once installed.

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