Strange GTK error

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Wed Jul 2 09:00:56 PDT 2008


Frank Schima wrote:
> gtk2 was the issue. As a follow-up question: for some reason, I have  
> both gtk1 and gtk2 active. Is there any reason to have both? In other  
> words, why might I have gtk1 active? I certainly did not install it  
> directly. I mean I understand that ports can be installed as  
> dependencies, but is there some port(s) that requires gtk1 over gtk2?  
> Is there a port command to tell me which ports may have required it?

$ port dependents gtk1

will show you installed ports depending on gtk1. Then you can use port
dependents on those ports again until you find out what requires it
finally. Unfortunately there is no automatic --follow-dependents for
this command.

Rainer


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