dependency loop in editors/vim with GTK3 option

[Lorenzo Salvadore]

>      There is a dependency recursion loop in the build process for editors/vim
>
>
> if one selects the GTK3 config menu option. The only way I've found so far to
> get around this is to choose the GTK2 option instead.
> With GTK3 selected, graphics/librsvg2 becomes a dependency, which, in
> turn, is dependent upon lang/vala. lang/vala depends upon devel/dconf, which
> depends upon devel/gconf2. devel/gconf2 depends upon graphics/graphviz, which
> depends upon lang/vala! The recursion occurs there and was found by following
> the instructions in UPDATING for the upgrade to perl5.28 when using portmaster.
> The command shown in the instructions is "portmaster -f", so the -f forces all
> dependencies and dependent ports to be rebuilt.
> As nearly as I can see, this dependency recursion loop breaks any port
> involving lang/vala when portmaster -f is used. In the case of editors/vim,
> a usable workaround is to choose gtk2 instead of gtk3, but for many other
> ports, the perl upgrade's admonition to rebuilt ports that depend upon the
> perl library to omit -f when using portmaster while providing portmaster a
> complete list of all ports to be built. Provided an acceptable version
> of lang/vala is already installed, it will be used, and the dependency loop
> gets skipped over because there is no need to build lang/vala. Of course,
> if one does that, there is no guarantee that the resulting binaries installed
> for any of the ports in the recursion loop will function properly, given that
> they may be based upon obsolete versions of the other ports in the loop.
>
> Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
>

I have just installed lang/vala from ports and everything went fine.
I have checked lang/vala's dependencies with "make all-depends-list" and
devel/dconf is not listed.

I suggest you try installing lang/vala from ports after having updated your ports
tree.
If you still get the problem, then you should open a bug report on
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/
Start your bug report summary with "lang/vala: " so that the port maintainer
automatically gets notification of the report and anyone can find your PR
easily.

Lorenzo Salvadore.