On Oct 28, 2009, at 10:15, Kastus Shchuka wrote:

> ...
> I checked dependencies of xorg-libX11 and it was true, now groff is listed as 
> a dependency:
> 
> port deps xorg-libX11
> Full Name: xorg-libX11 @1.3.2
> Build Dependencies: ..., groff
> ...
> I wonder why a library has to depend on a typesetting package? Is it by 
> mistake?

Notice it's a build dependency.  It's used to build the documentation.

> ...
> The version in 59718 is 1.3.1, the one that I had installed already without 
> groff. Is that possible that port file changes without incrementing version 
> number?

Yes.  The earlier version used the system's version of groff to build 
documentation, but there is a bug with the version of groff on Leopard and 
Tiger... so MP's groff needs to be pulled in.

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