Generally speaking, for almost all ports, they are allowed to install as either x11 or quartz.
So you should choose which flavour you want, x11 or quartz, and go with that. x11 is more compatible-- because it is (was, anyway, until wayland) broadly tested on linux, most or all such ports can install as x11. quartz is more Mac-like in UI and sometimes in other features, but it is somewhat less compatible as not many developers test things as quartz , and so certain ports won't build as +quartz, or will be missing features. To be noted, macports defaults to +x11, and so the macports buildbots are set up to build +x11, and so if you go with +quartz, you'll be building many ports, and sometimes that can lead to build errors and frustrations. Once you're decided which flavour you want, if it is +quartz, you should probably put that in your /opt/local/etc/variants.conf And then either way, x11 or quartz, you should probably deactivate all your existing ports and install the ones you want -- they will be called in with the right flavour. (Well, maybe not _all_ your ports, but at least deactivate any ports that have +x11 or +quartz variants installed.) The issue you are having here is that you have installed some ports with the +quartz variant (tk at least) and some ports with the +x11 variant (R), so you either need to reinstall R with the +quartz variant or tk with the +x11 variant. And it looks like at some point in the past you had tk installed with the +x11 variant, as it's in your list of installed ports, currently deactivated. I personally prefer +quartz variants, so I have my system set up that way, and so I build things, and sometimes things won't install, but I live with that because I like +quartz. Ken > On Dec 22, 2024, at 12:13 PM, Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > How to proceed? > > port installed | grep ' R ' > R @4.4.1_2+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11 > R @4.4.1_3+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11 > R @4.4.1_4+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11 > R @4.4.2_0+aqua+builtin_lapack+cairo+gcc14+openmp+tcltk+x11 (active) > > port installed | grep ' tk ' > tk @8.6.14_0+x11 > tk @8.6.15_0+quartz (active) > > Does this mean that I need to have a tk based on x11 to be active? > > sudo port deactivate tk > Note: It is not recommended to uninstall/deactivate a port that has > dependents as it breaks the dependents. > The following ports will break: > tkdiff @4.2_0 > tklib @0.7_0 > R @4.4.2_0 > py312-tkinter @3.12.8_0 > py313-tkinter @3.13.1_0 > maxima @5.47.0_9 > Continue? [y/N]: n > ---> Cleaning tk > > Thanks, > Ken Wolcott > <port_R_failed.log>
