On Jun 1, 2022, at 17:31, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
> Should I expect a +quartz variant to propagate to dependencies, and overrule
> existing variants?
Variants specified on the command line when installing a port propagate to any
dependencies that have not yet been installed. They do not propagate
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On May 31, 2022, at 18:40, James wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2022, at 7:19 am, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> I have not used gimp often enough to be familiar with the option you're
>> referring to so I'm not sure I can advise
On Jun 2, 2022, at 20:44, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> I’m a port maintainer…but I’m having a user problem. For some weeks now,
> ‘sudo port selfupdate’ has not been properly updating my local ports tree(s)
> on my main Mac. About 2 weeks ago, I was going to post a question about this
> but then
Hi:
I’m a port maintainer…but I’m having a user problem. For some weeks now, ‘sudo
port selfupdate’ has not been properly updating my local ports tree(s) on my
main Mac. About 2 weeks ago, I was going to post a question about this but
then I ran ‘sudo port -d selfupdate’ and it seemed that
On 6/2/22, 12:11 PM, "macports-users on behalf of Eric Gallager via
macports-users" wrote:
> 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
On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 8:33 AM Christopher Nielsen
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
> Should I expect a +quartz variant to propagate to dependencies, and
> overrule existing variants?
propagate to dependencies?
Yes. You demonstrated that already when you tried to install gimp +quartz and
it passed that down to deps.
overrule existing variants?
No.
If you already have a
> 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
