Hi I'm a little spoiled by Gentoo's Portage package manager (ebuilds and friends) which resolves dependencies in a very user-friendly manner. MacPorts seems trickier, an example:
git-core depends on curl depends on curl-ca-bundles If I update curl, I have two concurrent versions installed. Uninstalling the obsolete one is not working as git-core has been built dependent on the old curl version. So I have to uninstall or force-uninstall git-core, remove the obsolete curl and install git-core again. This can be very nasty if you have a lot of dependencies upstream. Is there an easier way to do this? And - not being blasphemic there - are there any improvements concerning dependency handling in the MacPorts pipeline? Maybe changing the underlying engine to Portage? ;-) Cheers! -sven -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Resolving-dependencies-tp17124856p17124856.html Sent from the MacPorts - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
