quartz/x11 conflict

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

On Aug 15, 2012, at 18:05, Ludwig <im.not.using.any.numbers at gmail.com> wrote:

> I uninstalled everything gtk2 related all the way down to cairo in an
> effort to get gtk2 +quartz installed.  Yet when installing gtk2
> +quartz
> directly, in installs pango and cairo +quartz+x11, which causes gtk2 +quartz
> (which conflicts with +x11) to fail, as it requires pango to be built
> -x11.  Okay,
> fine, manually install pango +quartz +no_x11.  Oops, that requires
> cairo to be
> built -x11.  Build that by itself.  Then build pango by itself.  Then
> gtk2.
> That seems to work.
> 
> But seeing as how +x11 and +quartz are incompatible at such a low
> level, shouldn't
> they be mutually exclusive in all dependent ports?

No.  It would be better if those ports could be updated such that they weren't conflicting.  IIRC, the dylibs (and pkg-config files) are actually named differently.  They can theoretically co-exist.