problem with recursing dependencies

[Panagiotis Atmatzidis]

Hello,

Lately I'm having troubles with recursive dependencies. Every time I  
install a package on a mac mini acting as a server I have keep an eye  
on the variants and the dependencies before the installation (sudo  
port deps/variants pkg_name).

But lately, I've tried to install rdiff-backup and although I've got a  
reasonable volume of packages to be installed and I have this  
configuration in the:

devo:~ atma$ tail -n 1 /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf
-apache -apache2 +no_x11

when I try to install rdiff-backup or duplicity (incremental backup  
utilities that permit remote backup via ssh/ftp) I get these packages  
installed:

--->  Fetching xorg-xproto
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-xproto
--->  Extracting xorg-xproto
--->  Configuring xorg-xproto
--->  Building xorg-xproto
--->  Staging xorg-xproto into destroot
--->  Installing xorg-xproto @7.0.15_0
--->  Activating xorg-xproto @7.0.15_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-xproto
--->  Fetching xorg-bigreqsproto
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-bigreqsproto
--->  Extracting xorg-bigreqsproto
--->  Configuring xorg-bigreqsproto
--->  Building xorg-bigreqsproto
--->  Staging xorg-bigreqsproto into destroot
--->  Installing xorg-bigreqsproto @1.0.2_0
--->  Activating xorg-bigreqsproto @1.0.2_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-bigreqsproto
--->  Fetching xorg-inputproto
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-inputproto
--->  Extracting xorg-inputproto
--->  Configuring xorg-inputproto
--->  Building xorg-inputproto
--->  Staging xorg-inputproto into destroot
--->  Installing xorg-inputproto @1.5.1_0
--->  Activating xorg-inputproto @1.5.1_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-inputproto
--->  Fetching xorg-kbproto
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-kbproto
--->  Extracting xorg-kbproto
--->  Configuring xorg-kbproto
--->  Building xorg-kbproto
--->  Staging xorg-kbproto into destroot
--->  Installing xorg-kbproto @1.0.3_0
--->  Activating xorg-kbproto @1.0.3_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-kbproto
--->  Fetching xorg-libXau
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-libXau
--->  Extracting xorg-libXau
--->  Configuring xorg-libXau
--->  Building xorg-libXau
--->  Staging xorg-libXau into destroot
--->  Installing xorg-libXau @1.0.4_0
--->  Activating xorg-libXau @1.0.4_0
--->  Cleaning xorg-libXau
--->  Fetching xorg-libXdmcp
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-libXdmcp
--->  Extracting xorg-libXdmcp
--->  Configuring xorg-libXdmcp
--->  Building xorg-libXdmcp
[...]


A dozen of xorg related packages. This machine is intended to act as a  
server so xorg related package should not be installed if not for  
libraries. Later it tries to install xorg itself. The problem is that  
I can't see the circular dependencies (say like gentoo) in order to  
determine which variants cause this mess.

Can someone point me out a flexible solution here?

Regards



Panagiotis (atma) Atmatzidis

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