On 18 Apr 2017, at 14:43, Ryan Schmidt 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 not
> On Apr 18, 2017, at 07:37, db wrote:
>
> On 18 Apr 2017, at 13:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Yes, installing a port should mark it requested. I'm unclear what happened
>> in your situation.
>
> This is what I do:
>
> Last login: Tue Apr 18 14:14:12 on ttys001
> tests-mac:~ test$
> tests-mac:
On 18 Apr 2017, at 13:07, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Yes, installing a port should mark it requested. I'm unclear what happened in
> your situation.
This is what I do:
Last login: Tue Apr 18 14:14:12 on ttys001
tests-mac:~ test$
tests-mac:~ test$ port version
Version: 2.4.1
tests-mac:~ test$
tests
On Apr 18, 2017, at 02:52, db wrote:
> I wanted to install texinfo which is actually a leaf of coreutils, but `sudo
> port install texinfo` doesn't make it a requested port, as I would expect. Is
> it intended behaviour? I suppose, I could either uninstall leaves and
> reinstall it, or use set
I wanted to install texinfo which is actually a leaf of coreutils, but `sudo
port install texinfo` doesn't make it a requested port, as I would expect. Is
it intended behaviour? I suppose, I could either uninstall leaves and reinstall
it, or use setrequested.
