#53790 closed enhancement (fixed)
wget port variant that does not require X11
| Reported by: | mathomp4 (Matthew Thompson) | Owned by: | ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | lrenaud (Luke), danchr (Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen) | |
| Port: | wget |
Description (last modified by ctreleaven (Craig Treleaven))
Macports devels,
This is an enhancement I'd really like. I tend to use wget as my "URL getter" of choice mainly because of muscle memory ('wget' instead of 'curl -O' flies off my fingers better).
So, I'd like to install wget on my Mac. But, I try to keep my Macports installs fairly lean for the times I need to rebuild them all, etc. But, lets say I want wget:
(26) $ port -y install wget ---> Computing dependencies for wget The following dependencies will be installed: cairo desktop-file-utils fontconfig freetype ghostscript glib2 gnutls gobject-introspection graphite2 groff harfbuzz harfbuzz-icu help2man icu jasper jbig2dec jbigkit jpeg lcms2 libnetpbm libpixman libpng libtasn1 libunistring libzzip mpfr netpbm nettle openjpeg p11-kit p5.24-locale-gettext poppler poppler-data potrace psutils py27-appdirs py27-beaker py27-certifi py27-mako py27-markupsafe py27-packaging py27-parsing py27-setuptools py27-six texinfo texlive-basic texlive-bin texlive-common tiff xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-fixesproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libX11 xorg-libXau xorg-libXaw xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libXext xorg-libXfixes xorg-libXi xorg-libXmu xorg-libXp xorg-libXt xorg-libice xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-libsm xorg-libxcb xorg-printproto xorg-renderproto xorg-util-macros xorg-xcb-proto xorg-xcb-util xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xproto xorg-xtrans xpm xrender Continue? [Y/n]: n
That seems a bit much for wget, a program even GNU says works on non-X terminals:
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
The fact that it seems to need all of X and TeXLive as well as bits of Python and Perl (parts of which I have installed). My guess is because its docs need TeX might be triggering this?
Could there possibly be a way to create a "lite" variant that might end up just getting wget and maybe some simple GNU tools? Maybe by only building manpages and not docs that need texinfo?
Personally, I think this ticket should be closed as "worksforme".
Change History (13)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by mathomp4 (Matthew Thompson)
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by mathomp4 (Matthew Thompson)
| Cc: | mathomp4 added |
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comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
| Cc: | mathomp4 removed |
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| Owner: | set to ryandesign |
| Port: | wget added |
| Status: | new → assigned |
In the future, please Cc the port maintainers (port info --maintainers wget), if any. As reporter, you do not need to Cc yourself.
comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by Schamschula (Marius Schamschula)
I just ran
$port rdeps wget
The following ports are dependencies of wget @1.19.1_0+ssl:
xz
libiconv
gperf
gettext
expat
ncurses
texinfo
help2man
perl5.24
gdbm
p5.24-locale-gettext
pkgconfig
libidn
nettle
autoconf
automake
libtool
gmp
pcre
bzip2
libedit
zlib
gnutls
libtasn1
libunistring
perl5
texlive-basic
texlive-common
texlive-bin
fontconfig
freetype
libpng
libzzip
xmlto
getopt
coreutils
findutils
libpaper
libxml2
libxslt
docbook-xml
xmlcatmgr
docbook-xml-4.1.2
unzip
docbook-xml-4.2
docbook-xml-4.3
docbook-xml-4.4
docbook-xml-4.5
docbook-xml-5.0
docbook-xsl
fop
poppler
curl
openssl
curl-ca-bundle
jpeg
glib2
libffi
cairo
libpixman
xrender
xorg-libX11
xorg-xtrans
xorg-bigreqsproto
xorg-xcmiscproto
xorg-xextproto
xorg-xf86bigfontproto
xorg-inputproto
xorg-util-macros
xorg-libXdmcp
xorg-xproto
xorg-libXau
xorg-libxcb
xorg-xcb-proto
python27
sqlite3
db48
python_select
python2_select
xorg-libpthread-stubs
xorg-kbproto
xorg-renderproto
xorg-libXext
xorg-xcb-util
lcms2
tiff
openjpeg
cmake
libarchive
lzo2
lz4
libuv
jbigkit
poppler-data
gobject-introspection
py27-mako
py27-setuptools
py27-appdirs
py27-certifi
py27-packaging
py27-parsing
py27-six
py27-beaker
py27-markupsafe
graphite2
icu
harfbuzz
harfbuzz-icu
mpfr
potrace
xorg-libXp
xorg-printproto
xpm
xorg-libXt
xorg-libsm
xorg-libice
xorg-libXaw
groff
ghostscript
jbig2dec
psutils
netpbm
subversion
apr
apr-util
db46
serf1
scons
cyrus-sasl2
kerberos5
libcomerr
libmagic
jasper
libnetpbm
xorg-libXmu
xorg-libXi
xorg-libXfixes
xorg-fixesproto
p11-kit
desktop-file-utils
popt
You can see that the texlive dependencies come in under libunistring which is a build requirement for gnutls.
comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by mathomp4 (Matthew Thompson)
Actually looking at that list, curl is a dependency of wget! That is...ironic? Weird? I'm not sure.
I guess didn't see it in mine because something must have required it already in my Macports setup.
comment:6 Changed 7 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
| Cc: | lrenaud added |
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Has duplicate #53958. Suggestions welcome.
comment:7 Changed 7 years ago by ctreleaven (Craig Treleaven)
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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I don't think this problem is all that serious. As noted, most of the packages are only required for the build. Binary packages of wget are available:
http://packages.macports.org/wget/
In such cases, its direct build dependencies _won't_ need to be installed (although I haven't tested this on a clean system):
$ port info --depends_build wget depends_build: texinfo, perl5.24, pkgconfig
The overall number of build dependencies that will get installed depends on whether there are binary packages for each of the non-build dependencies that wget need--unless the user has chosen to build everything from source. I haven't gone to the effort of checking each one. The following lists the non-build deps:
$ port rdeps --no-build wget
The following ports are dependencies of wget @1.19.1_0+ssl:
libidn
libiconv
gettext
expat
ncurses
nettle
gmp
pcre
bzip2
libedit
zlib
gnutls
libtasn1
libunistring
p11-kit
desktop-file-utils
glib2
libffi
popt
libxslt
libxml2
xz
curl-ca-bundle
I trust this list is acceptable. ;)
In any event, after wget is installed, the 'port leaves' command should indicate any such packages that got installed but can be pruned.
comment:8 Changed 7 years ago by lrenaud (Luke)
That list is acceptable. But I suppose the key question is why does libunistring depend upon texlive? Looking at the dependencies file in the libunistring source package from the project, there aren't actually any inherent dependencies.
Further digging shows the change comes from #47424. The ticket requested addition of the library for documentation generation, so the question simply becomes is it standard practice to build all documentation with a package? If we introduce a variant of libunistring sans documentation, and depend upon that by default this whole problem would go away.
comment:9 follow-up: 10 Changed 7 years ago by ctreleaven (Craig Treleaven)
A binary package is available for libunistring so most people _won't_ get all the build deps. The build deps are only used when the package is built (eg on our buildbots). The binary package should include the documentation and therefore the build deps need not be installed. If any of the build deps are being installed, it is either due to other packages or it's a bug we should fix. The list I posted above are the only deps that should be installed if you are using the default binary distribution.
And, as I tried to say, even if you build from source and _do_ get all the build deps, you don't have to keep them. 'port leaves' will help you find all the stuff that can be uninstalled after the a successful install.
The binary packages for libunistring are at:
http://packages.macports.org/libunistring/
The current ones seem to be about 2.6MB so the docs really can't be adding that much bulk.
comment:10 Changed 7 years ago by lrenaud (Luke)
I wasn't aware that MacPorts had any form of binary distribution, and while that clearly is the simplest solution, I don't think it's particularly clear to users that it exists.
I would favor a simple non-doc version of libunistring. It looks like the configure script simply auto-detects texlive to determine if it should generate documentation, so the variant would simply be a removal of the dependency.
comment:11 Changed 7 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
I think it becomes pretty clear that we have binaries as soon as the user installs a port.
It is customary to either include the documentation, if it isn't that large or inconvenient to do so, or to offer a "docs" variant or better yet a documentation sub-port if they are large or inconvenient.
comment:12 Changed 7 years ago by danchr (Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
comment:13 Changed 7 years ago by danchr (Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen)
| Cc: | danchr added |
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Aww nuts. An errant "Enter" submitted this before I could move the ticket to be for the "wget" port. Could an admin with power please move this ticket.
Mea culpa.