msp430 preventing glib2 upgrade

[Jean-François Caron]

Hi, I tried doing a routine upgrade of my ports today and got told that glib2 couldn't be updated while libelf was active.  I tried deactivating libelf but couldn't while mspdebug was installed.  I tried deactivating mspdebug but couldn't while msp430-gdb was installed.  Finally deactivating msp430-gdb allowed me to deactivate mspdebug and libelf and finally upgrade glib2.

So this instance has been resolved, but I am asking myself why I needed to do all these deactivations by hand?  Clearly macports knew what needed to be done.  I am also left needing to reactivate the proper ports afterwards.  Is there a reason it is like this, or is it a problem with the ports?

Jean-François