Superfluous dependencies

[Michael Scheidell]

On 3/8/11 4:42 AM, Hans Ottevanger wrote:
> One of them that I already hunted down is bison-2.4.3,1 that gets
> dragged in via gobject-introspection-0.9.12_1 when installing
> xorg-7,5.1 (even as a package). This is caused by bison specified as a
> dependency of type "both" in the port Makefile of
> gobject-introspection where it should be specified as "build". I don't
> think that Bison is used on run-time here and most likely not even on
> build- time.
appears one of our 'short cuts' causes this.  and I found it on a port I 
took over maint of.

happens all the time if you do a 'RUN_DEPENDS += BUILD_DEPENDS'

pulls in all kind of cruft.

example: tshark_lite.. pulls in pkg_conf.. makes it messy if you make a 
port binary package, and try to install it with pkg_add {port}.tbz.

lots of ports used that short cut above.  and it should not (and I think 
port lint complains)

Q: wireshark/tshark_lite maintainer: do you really need perl for 
runtime? or just to build tshark_lite?

I installed it with pkg_add -f tshark_lite and never needed it (and 
system didn't have perl)


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