Will using only dolphin be too much overhead?

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sat Feb 11 10:10:23 UTC 2017



> On 11 Feb 2017, at 8:34 am, Dorien Herremans <dorien.herremans at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ryan, 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> I've run: 
> sudo port uninstall installed
> 
> sudo port install kde4-baseapps
> 
> and it end with the following error: 
> Error: Requested variants "+gtk+gtk3+x11" do not match those the build was started with: "+gtk+gtk3+quartz+x11".
> 
> I'm at a loss quite frankly. I didn't edit any config files or so. 
> 

Just to add, in effect this is exactly what you did. You started a build with a particular configuration, which got so far and failed. You are now starting a new build, with different parameters, and thus you need to remove the old build area. Thats what the clean command does. 

> 
>> On 9 February 2017 at 23:37, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 9, 2017, at 09:33, Dorien Herremans wrote:
>> 
>> > Thanks for the answer. I am really quite new to macports and I only wanted to install dolphin (kde4-baseapps). Errrr... Not sure how to approach this.
>> 
>> How did you end up with your ports installed with +quartz? Did you edit your variants.conf to include +quartz? Or did you specify +quartz manually at the command line?
>> 
>> > Can I somehow specify I want to remove all macports?
>> 
>> This will uninstall all ports, while leaving MacPorts itself installed:
>> 
>> sudo port uninstall installed
>> 
>> > And install kde4-baseapps +x11 or something?
>> 
>> kde4-baseapps does not itself have an +x11 variant. See:
>> 
>> $ port variants kde4-baseapps
>> kde4-baseapps has the variants:
>>    baloo: Add support for baloo indexing
>>    debug: Enable debug binaries
>>    docs: Build documentation
>> 
>> 
>> +x11 has always been the MacPorts default, so unless you specify +quartz at the command line or in variants.conf, you'll get +x11, where such a choice exists.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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