> If I understand what you are asking correctly, you are asking how to > setup a port that does nothing other than depend on other ports, so > installing it drags in all the dependencies, in one go?
No, I want the opposite. For example, I want to create a replacement for `texlive-basic' that does nothing except fulfilling the dependency. This is, after installing this dummy `texlive-basic', `port' shall believe that `texlive-basic' is indeed installed. Ditto for all other `texlive-*' ports. Ideally, I would like to have all this stuff in a single file, to be automatically created from the actual list of `texlive-*' ports as in texlive-dummy-opensuse, cf. https://github.com/rolfn/texlive-dummy-opensuse/blob/ba0bc1e2f866c379f750046439b6f4e40725805f/Makefile#L61 and following lines. > If so we have plenty of these in MacPorts. [...] Thanks; I've already seen such meta-packages. One of them is actually `texlive' itself :-) Werner
