Variant conflicts

[Bachsau]

Eric A. Borisch wrote on 21.11.2015 05:45:
>
> Unfortunately, the portfile states that  "portions of this port are X11
> specific so a +quartz build is not possible."
>
> I don't know the specifics, but I'm guessing it's not trivial.

I don't think so. According to my experience with debians package 
system, many such dependencies are just mistakes of the maintainers or 
only cause problems in just one of many usage scenarios ("portions of 
this port"), such like trying to start the whole desktop. This is why 
I'm always somewhat annoyed when a package system tries to impose 
dependencies against the will of an administrator. This is why I just 
asked for an override, so I can try if it is really a problem.

As I understood, the gnome-desktop port is just a bunch of supporting 
libraries, and I wanted to install just nautilus, which depends on 
gnome-desktop, which depends on gtk3+x11. But I don't want to be forced 
to use gtk3 with x11, as it's not capable of displaying hi-res-graphics 
on my retina display, and I'm developing python apps based on gtk3, so I 
want to use it with quartz. Would be very bad if I had to choose between 
Nautilus or gtk3 with quartz.

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