Hi Dave, I think that you are correct - aspell is a dependency of KDE itself.
Looking at the port info for kreversi, it looks like kreversi depends on kdelibs4, which in turn depends on aspell. -ranga > On Nov 19, 2022, at 12:09, Dave Horsfall <[email protected]> wrote: > > MacBook Pro 13", mid 2010; High Sierra 10.13.6. > > Kreversi is an implementation of the board game "reversi", but it fails > with: > > # port install kreversi > ---> Computing dependencies for kreversi > Error: Can't install aspell because conflicting ports are active: ispell > Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets if you believe > there is a bug. > Error: Processing of port kreversi failed > > No error log that I can see, but why on earth would a spell checker be > required for a simple board game? Is it because of KDE (ugh!) itself? > > -- Dave
