On 10/10/16 6:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Oct 10, 2016, at 15:23, Johannes Kastl <m...@ojkastl.de> wrote: >> >>> On 10.10.16 22:20 David Evans wrote: >>> >>> Yesterday. r153733 removed the run time dependency on epiphany from gimp2. >>> Perhaps you need to update your ports? >>> >>> sudo port selfupdate >> >> I did, but maybe I got a stale mirror. Anyway, I'll try again. > > You get whatever mirror you have specified in your macports.conf file. The > Seattle mirror is stale; the others update several times a day. > > >>> Yes, this is over kill but it makes sure that you don't have >>> any spurious +x11 dependencies of epiphany laying around to bite you. >> >> Should I not activate them again after that? > > Johannes, you should re-activate any other ports you actually want to use. Slowly and carefully so you can see when something causes a problem with the ports that are already active.
> > Dave, telling people to deactivate all active ports to fix a gimp issue is > probably not ideal, because although it may fix the gimp issue, it will also > deactivate any other ports the user was using. At least, not without > explaining that to the user. The point here was not to fix a gimp issue. That has already been done. The point was to help remove all the unintentionally installed conflicting wreckage that was caused by including the dependency on x11-only epiphany and it's dependencies without having to figure out what they all were. None the less, I DO recommend it as a way of cleanly switching between an +x11 test environment and a +quartz one on a single machine. > > Johannes, the reason for Dave's suggestion is that you really need to make > the choice about whether to use x11 or quartz before you have installed any > ports. Trying to change that decision after you have already installed ports > will lead to problems. This situation is somewhat muddled by the fact that > some ports (like cairo) can be installed with both variants simultaneously, > and that a few ports (currently only VLC, VLC-devel and libVLC, I think) > default to quartz instead of x11. Yes, but in the VLC case, I believe +quartz doesn't mean build using the GTK Quartz backend but an aqua build using strictly macOS native API's. Probably not a completely proper use of +quartz. And then they have a Qt version, too. More problematic is that not all ports that support x11 also support quartz, so even if you decided you want to use quartz, you may find you want to install a port that only works with x11, and trying to do so will cause problems. Indeed. This is where you just have to make a choice. > > See the thread going on now on the macports-users list for more on this > situation. > Ryan, thanks for trying to help describe a very complex issue. I'm going to get serious about documenting the specific issues involved so that others like Johannes can get a better idea of what's going on. Dave _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
