Port version 1.520: py-gnome is inconsistent.

[paul beard]

On 11/24/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
>
> > py25_cairo and py_cairo cannot be installed at the same time:
> >
> > # port install py25-cairo
> > --->  Activating py25-cairo 1.4.0_1
> > Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/
> > local/include/pycairo/pycairo.h is being used by the active py-
> > cairo port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag
> > to force the activation.
> > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> Restated, the problem is that the meld port depends indirectly on
> both py-cairo and py25-cairo, but the two cannot be installed
> simultaneously. (I do not know whether it should be possible to
> install arbitrary py-foo and py25-foo simultaneously.)
>

The graphic helped a good deal. I think I learned a while back that py-gtk2
is for python 2.4 while the more explicitly named py25-gtk2 goes with 2.5.
So I think there is a redundancy, and potential conflict, there.

Are there tools out there that help track these things down? The visuals are
nice but they're not machine-readable, unfortunately ;-)
-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
<paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at mac.com>
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