On 18 Apr 2017, at 14:43, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > Ok fine. So texinfo got installed as a dependency of coreutils. You didn't > ask for it directly, so it was not marked requested. > Then, after that, you asked MacPorts to directly install texinfo. Since it > was already installed, MacPorts did nothing. > If you want to mark an already-installed port requested, use "port > setrequested".
I thought `port install` of a leaf port would mark it as installed and be MacPorts expected behaviour. Anyway, something to take into account when automating an installation.