question on leaf ports

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 3/2/06, Peter <petermatulis at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hi gang.  Does a leaf port have no build dependants or
> no run dependants?  I want to be assured that I can
> remove a leaf port but not have to put it back in
> order to upgrade another port.  Utilities such as
> portmaster show leaf ports and I'm not sure what it's
> really telling me.

I think the traditional sense of a leaf means no run
dependants, as this seems to be the only kind of
dependency registered in pkgdb. Consult the docs
of your particular port management app.