[MacPorts] #25833: installing geomview hangs

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#25833: installing geomview hangs
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 Reporter:  celil.kj@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.9.1                                
 Keywords:                      |        Port:  geomview                             
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Comment(by dports@…):

 My guess is that what's going on here is that, due to a bug, dependency
 computation can take a very long time when there are lots of dependencies
 with many paths to each. This usually comes up when installing texlive
 +full on a system with no ports previously installed.

 (See http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-
 dev/2010-November/013219.html for more info about the bug. It was fixed in
 r73133, so the fix should be in the MacPorts 2.0.0 betas, but it's not in
 the stable release yet.)

 My usual workaround is to explicitly install an intermediate dependency
 like texlive-bin first to help speed things along. Although if you've got
 MacTeX installed already you might not have been looking to install
 another texlive distribution. You may be able to accomplish that by
 putting /usr/texbin in your binpath in macports.conf, but I can't speak to
 how well that works.

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