Confused dependencies?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 18:30, Braden McDaniel wrote:

> I'm presented with the following:
>
>> turketron:~ bmcdaniel$ port installed | grep tiff
>>   tiff @3.8.2_0+darwin_8
>>   tiff @3.8.2_1+darwin_8+macosx (active)
>> turketron:~ bmcdaniel$ sudo port uninstall tiff at 3.8.2_0+darwin_8
>> --->  Unable to uninstall tiff 3.8.2_0+darwin_8, the following  
>> ports depend on it:
>> --->  	gtk2
>> --->  	gtk2
>> --->  	gtk2
>> Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that  
>> depend on tiff first.
>> turketron:~ bmcdaniel$ port installed | grep gtk2
>>   gtk2 @2.12.2_0+x11 (active)
>
> There were two other versions of gtk2 installed; but port let me  
> uninstall them.
>
> I'm assuming things have fallen into some confused state. How might  
> I fix it?

Are you just referring to the fact that "gtk2" is printed three times  
as a dependency, though it's only installed once? If so, then that's  
a well-known (but still unfixed) bug:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/8763