conflicting dependency issue on glib2 variants x11 and quartz

Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mottola at libero.it
Wed May 6 09:00:40 UTC 2026


Hi,

Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:
> The "[+]" before x11 (and not before quartz) seems to show that your MacPorts is set to prefer x11 not quartz.

I did a port selfupdate today, a clean outdated and after reinstalling 
CLI I restarted upgrade.

the glib2 problem and associated went away.

However, I ended up with broken applications. Meld doesn't start 
anymore. Gimp works and starts with quartz as expected.

% port installed meld
The following ports are currently installed:
   meld @3.22.2_0+quartz (active)

% port installed glib2
The following ports are currently installed:
   glib2 @2.78.4_1+quartz
   glib2 @2.78.4_2+quartz
   glib2 @2.78.4_3+quartz
   glib2 @2.88.0_0+quartz
   glib2 @2.88.1_0+quartz (active)



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