odd Gnucash dependencies

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 23, 2008, at 10:13, Lenore Horner wrote:

> Running
> sudo port install gnucash +without_hbci +without_ofx +without_quotes
>
> on a clean install of MacPorts 1.7.0 on a Powerbook G4 with OS X  
> 10.5.6 and XCode 3.1
>
> seems to install multiple versions of docbook-xml (4.3, 4.1.2, 4.2,  
> 4.4, 4.5, and 5.0) as shown in the excerpts below. I notice that  
> the successive versions are not saying they deactivated previous  
> versions.  I haven't finished the installation yet, so I don't know  
> if this is working or what ends up active, but it seems, naively,  
> like very bizarre behavior.

I believe that's simply the way the docbook-xml ports are designed to  
work. I don't know why but perhaps Maun Suang or Anthony can explain  
why the ports are like that.