Gnome ports messed up (dependency loops)

[Clint Olsen]

On Apr 04, Denise H. G. wrote:
> Manually run 'pkgdb -Fu'. It might help.

I have a few times, but the instructions given in UPDATING don't give me an
indication of /how/ I should be answering these questions posed by pkgdb
-Ff (or Fu, or whatever).  For example, it's not clear to me /why/ we're
uninstalling certain packages before the upgrade - are they obsolete or is
it an order dependency?  Later during the process with things are fubar, I
don't know whether installing certain stale dependencies are correct or not
nor do I know how to answer questions about package origins.

I'd love to help myself here, but having some cluepons would help.

Thanks,

-Clint