Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#32339 closed defect
mpkg seems to include some installation dependencies — at Version 1
| Reported by: | rogerdpack@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | 2.0.3 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ryandesign@… | |
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Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))
When running
$ port mpkg mplayer-devel
I noticed that a few oddities are included, like bzip2, perl, gettext, which might not all should be included.
Sorry I couldn't seem to easily pinpoint it further, as mpkg with simpler packages seemed to work just fine.
Thanks.
-r
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Cc: | ryandesign@… added |
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| Description: | modified (diff) |
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bzip2 is a compression library. MPlayer presumably uses it to compress/decompress things, so it can't be removed. You can infer this by noticing that bzip2 is listed as a library dependency of mplayer-devel, and confirm it by examining mplayer-devel's files with the
otool -Lcommand.gettext is an internationalization library. It is used to provide user interface strings in different languages. I don't know whether MPlayer itself uses it, but its dependencies do, so it cannot be removed. MacPorts policy is to provide full-featured software, so we don't provide an option to turn natural language support off; see comment:ticket:32304:2.
perl is a scripting language. I'm not sure in what capacity it is used, but it is listed as a library dependency of glib2 (which means it is used by glib2 at build time and at runtime), and glib2 is a library dependency of liboil, which is a library dependency of mplayer-devel, so it can't be removed.