Quartz vs x11: Inaccessible package meld

[Peter Brommer]

> On 24 May 2016, at 16:12, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On May 23, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Peter Brommer <p.brommer at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>> [..]
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>> However, I’ve recently found that I now cannot install meld, as meld somehow depends on gtksourceview for which gtk2 needs to be installed in the +quartz variant:
>> $ sudo port install meld
>> --->  Computing dependencies for meld
>> --->  Dependencies to be installed: py27-pygtksourceview gtksourceview2 yelp gnome-getting-started-docs gnome-user-docs webkit2-gtk geoclue2 json-glib libsoup glib-networking gsettings-desktop-schemas libproxy gstreamer1 gstreamer1-gst-plugins-bad chromaprint fluidsynth jack db60 libsamplerate portaudio gstreamer1-gst-plugins-base libdca libdvdnav libdvdread libdvdcss libmms libmpcdec mpg123 neon openal-soft pulseaudio json-c rtmpdump soundtouch spandsp-devel x265 gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good libdv libshout2 taglib hyphen libnotify libsecret libgcrypt libgpg-error yelp-xsl
>> --->  Fetching archive for gtksourceview2
>> Error: org.macports.archivefetch for port gtksourceview2 returned: gtk2 must be installed with +x11.
>> Error: Failed to install gtksourceview2
>> …
>> 
>> Now: is there a workaround for this? Can I get meld installed somehow? Or do I have to resign to the fact that unless I move everything back to x11, I won’t be able to install meld?
> 
> gtksourceview2 has a quartz variant. If you have gtk2 installed with the quartz variant, you must install gtksourceview2 with the quartz variant.

Thanks, that did the trick. 

> 
> If you want to use quartz variants, you should add "+quartz" to your variants.conf file so that it gets automatically selected for all ports that have them.

Sometimes I wonder how I could use macports for over three years now without setting this previously. It’s always a fight using quartz over x11 without this. Hopefully, at some time, I’ll have enough time to migrate the remaining x11 ports to quartz… Anyways, thank you very much!

Peter


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