On Sep 20, 2024, at 4:45 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]> wrote:
>  I don't think that I, as a MacPorts consumer (not developer) ,
> should not have to do anything other than port commands to get around
> this issue...even if I indirectly caused the problem by trying
> deparately to install my way out of the issue...

As far as I'm aware, dependencies are intended to be an acyclic graph.

If there's a cycle, I'd say that's a bug and it would be reasonable to create a 
ticket so the maintainer(s) can fix it.

> If there is a port that I should uninstall that would break this
> circular dependency hell, then please show me which one (or ones) will
> solve the problem.  I suppose that I could try to list all my desired
> ports as requested then uninstall everything and re-install?

That's older migration method (and would be a reasonable thing to try).

-- 
Daniel J. Luke

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