On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 8:33 AM Christopher Nielsen <masc...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: > > > Thus I succeeded in fumbling my way through installing gimp +quartz despite > > dependencies already present with the wrong variants, but it was a bit > > messy and confusing. Should I expect MacPorts to do a better job with this > > situation?? If so, maybe I should file a ticket against some of these > > ports, to see if portfile changes would avoid the problems. > > Your frustration is understandable, as this can be a bit painful if you > already have non-Quartz versions of any dependencies installed. However, I’m > reluctant to tweak those at this point, as it’s not an easy problem to solve > as-is. > > Ultimately this nonsense will all be eliminated, by migrating from variants > to segregated subports. That’s a big effort, given the number of ports > involved. But it’s something I’m finally starting to work on, as it also > frustrates me as the maintainer! > > The first big win was completed a few days ago, and that’s segregation of the > various ‘gtk-osx-application-xxx’ subports. This allows users to finally be > able to install Quartz apps for both gtk2 and gtk3 side-by-side, which wasn’t > possible previously. (So folks can have GIMP Quartz and Inkscape Quartz > installed at the same time, for example.) > > More to follow over the coming weeks, but we’re finally making slow and > steady progress!
Note that the bug for tracking this progress is ticket 60511, for anyone interested: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/60511 > Cheers, > -Chris
