Concerning https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46105
<https://trac.macports.org/ticket/46105>
textinfo currently has the following dependencies:
Full Name: texinfo @6.0_1
Extract Dependencies: xz
Build Dependencies: help2man
Library Dependencies: gettext, libiconv, ncurses, perl5.22
textinfo builds fine, but two of its programs (texi2dvi and texindex) might
call external programs provided by:
/usr/bin/sed
port:biblatex-biber
port:ghostscript
port:gawk
port:grep
port:hevea
port:texlive-basic
port:texlive-htmlxml
port:texlive-latex
port:texlive-latex-recommended
port:xindy
Most ports that use texinfo probably require only a subset of these external
programs.
Whose job is it to provide these dependencies?
As far as I can tell, there are three options:
(1) texinfo has runtime dependencies on *all* of them just in case.
(2) A port, e.g. octave, has a build dependency on any extern programs it
needs
(see
https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2016-January/040386.html
<https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2016-January/040386.html>).
(3) texinfo has runtime dependency on most common external programs (a
mixture of (1) and (2)).
(2) seems to be what we have right now.
Should we just stick with this (in which case #46105 should be closed)?
If (3) is the best choice, what are the most common external programs?
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