Ports Dependency management

[yayien]

Hello, I've been noticing some strange behavior with the ports lately. Indeed, following the end-of-life of misc/getopt, I uninstalled it manually via a

make deinstall clean

and then installed its suggested replacement, devel/util-linux. Just to be sure, I recompiled/installed the port that required this dependency—in my case, textproc/xmlto and everything went fine. However, if I use

portmaster xmlto

, it still leaves the dependency on misc/getopt. So, my question is: is there a difference in dependency management between manually installing a port and using portmaster? Thanks in advance.

 

[SirDice]

It has a hardcoded dependency on misc/getopt:

BUILD_DEPENDS=	${BASH_CMD}:shells/bash \
		${GETOPT_CMD}:misc/getopt \
		xmllint:textproc/libxml2 \
		xsltproc:textproc/libxslt \
		docbook-xsl>0:textproc/docbook-xsl \
		paperconf:print/libpaper \
		w3m:www/w3m \
		docbook-xml>0:textproc/docbook-xml

So, my question is: is there a difference in dependency management between manually installing a port and using portmaster?

No, there isn't. Portmaster is basically just a wrapper around the standard ports system.

 

[yayien]

Thank you for your reply ! (I forgot to check the port itself as building it directly works fine!)