On 2009-7-12 19:23, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote: > Hello, > > Lately I'm having troubles with recursive dependencies. Every time I > install a package on a mac mini acting as a server I have keep an eye on > the variants and the dependencies before the installation (sudo port > deps/variants pkg_name). > > But lately, I've tried to install rdiff-backup and although I've got a > reasonable volume of packages to be installed and I have this > configuration in the: > > devo:~ atma$ tail -n 1 /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf > -apache -apache2 +no_x11 > > when I try to install rdiff-backup or duplicity (incremental backup > utilities that permit remote backup via ssh/ftp) I get these packages > installed: > [...] > A dozen of xorg related packages.
Try this: <http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/contrib/port-rdeps/> It shows that the xorg ports are getting pulled in in via tk. It has a 'quartz' variant which will remove them. > This machine is intended to act as a > server so xorg related package should not be installed if not for > libraries. Later it tries to install xorg itself. The problem is that I > can't see the circular dependencies (say like gentoo) in order to > determine which variants cause this mess. I don't see any evidence of circular dependencies. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
