On Aug 17, 2012, at 14:31, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 17, 2012, at 12:37, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 18:05, Ludwig wrote:
>> 
>>> But seeing as how +x11 and +quartz are incompatible at such a low
>>> level, shouldn't
>>> they be mutually exclusive in all dependent ports?
>> 
>> No.  It would be better if those ports could be updated such that they 
>> weren't conflicting.  IIRC, the dylibs (and pkg-config files) are actually 
>> named differently.  They can theoretically co-exist.
> 
> I was under the impression that for some if not most ports, it's the same 
> libs and programs, and they just build differently depending on whether 
> quartz or x11 are enabled. For this reason I had supported the idea of having 
> separate quartz and x11 subports of all affected ports. It's a major 
> undertaking however.

That is true for some ports (especially applications), but the base libraries 
(like gtk2) can coexist just fine.

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