Should I expect a +quartz variant to propagate to dependencies, and overrule existing variants?

[Andrew Udvare]

Unfortunately it does not propagate. You can set global variants in
macports.conf

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022, 18:32 Jim DeLaHunt <list+macports-users at jdlh.com>
wrote:

> Should I expect a +quartz variant to propagate to dependencies, and
> overrule existing variants?
>
> I just tried to `install gimp +quartz`. This failed several times, each
> time with errors about some recursive dependency of gimp requiring its own
> dependency to be installed with a +quartz variant, but the port was already
> installed without the +quartz variant` commands explicitly.
>
> The specific ports in question are:
>
> gimp +quartz,
>   which depends on gimp-lqr-plugin,
>     which depends on gimp2 +quartz — but it was installed without that
> variant,
>       which depends on gtk-osx-application-gtk2,
>       and depends on gtk2 +quartz — but it was installed without that
> variant,
>       and depends on py27-pygtk +quartz — but it was installed without
> that variant,
>         which depends on libglade2,
>           which also depends on gtk2 +quartz
>
> So concretely, install gimp +quartz failed because gimp2 was installed
> without +quartz.
> A manual install gimp2 +quartz failed because gtk2 was installed without
> +quartz.
> A manual install gtk2 +quartz succeeded, but led to 5 broken ports.
> Rebuilding those broken ports failed at py27-pygtk because an in-progress
> build of gimp2 had conflicting variants "+python27" vs "+python27+quartz".
> A clean of gimp2, followed by a second manual install gimp2 +quartz
> succeeded, but led to 4 broken ports. Rebuilding those broken ports failed
> at py27-pygtk because gtk2 was installed *with* +quartz (actually,
> without the conflicting variant +x11).
> An uninstall py27-pygtk (despite gimp2 depending on it), followed by a
> clean py27-pygtk, succeeded.
> A manual install py27-pygtk +quartz succeeded, but led to 2 broken ports.
> Rebuilding those broken ports succeeded.
>
> Thus I succeeded in fumbling my way through installing gimp +quartz
> despite dependencies already present with the wrong variants, but it was a
> bit messy and confusing. Should I expect MacPorts to do a better job with
> this situation?  If so, maybe I should file a ticket against some of these
> ports, to see if portfile changes would avoid the problems.
>
> Thank you for your advice!
>     —Jim DeLaHunt
>
>
> --
> .    --Jim DeLaHunt, Vancouver, Canada
>
>
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