Re: Exa port dependencies

2023-06-09 Thread Joshua Root
Ideally, docs that need significant extra deps could be a separate (sub)port. - Josh On 10/6/2023 05:14, Chris Jones wrote: Hi, I agree they should be the default, ‘by default’, but there are some ports which have a docs variant that drags in minimum build deps and thus having enable by def

Re: Exa port dependencies

2023-06-09 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, I agree they should be the default, ‘by default’, but there are some ports which have a docs variant that drags in minimum build deps and thus having enable by default is probably fine. Anything though that drags in pandoc and the vast array of deps it needs should probably be optional… Ch

Re: Exa port dependencies

2023-06-09 Thread Ken Cunningham
I have long thought the doc variants should never be the default. Lots of bloat and extra deps and build errors. But I know others feel differently. I know I can set -doc in variants.conf, but then you’re building everything. K > On Jun 9, 2023, at 04:01, Joshua Root wrote: > >  >> >> The

Re: Exa port dependencies

2023-06-09 Thread Joshua Root
The list below is the current list of build dependencies when I do a port install of "exa +doc+git". The list seems pretty ridiculous though. I just cloned the exa repository and did a cargo build outside macports. None of these dependencies are required. The vast majority of those are dependencie

Exa port dependencies

2023-06-08 Thread ppadilcdx
The list below is the current list of build dependencies when I do a port install of "exa +doc+git". The list seems pretty ridiculous though. I just cloned the exa repository and did a cargo build outside macports. None of these dependencies are required.  alex  asciidoc  autoconf-archive  bas

exa port dependencies

2023-04-29 Thread ppadilcdx
I was going to install exa; I already had the listed build/library dependencies installed; but the port asked for all sort of other build dependencies which are not listed as dependencies in the source or as dependencies of the dependencies. Is that an error in the port or is it intentional?