php4-extensions broken dependency

[dave]

Hello,
    I've installed apache2 and mod_php4 and configured the extensions_dir
setting in php.ini. I then went to install lang/php4-extensions, but one of
the extensions i selected is mcve, marked as broken. When i try to get
around this the install detects my previous configuration choices. A make
clean;make distclean does not solve this. Suggestions welcome.
Thanks.
Dave.