gtk-2 depends on gtk2

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:44:31 -0700
> From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net>
> 
> I just started updating gtk20 on all of my systems. It failed to
> uninstall the old version due to a circular dependency. gtk-2.10.14_1
> is dependent on itself. I found the same problem on every system.
> 
> Then I tried a 'pkgdb -F' and found problems with circular
> dependencies involving xorg-libraries. It is now dependent on
> gtk, cairo, pango, pixman, and others which are dependent on
> xorg-libraries.
> 
> NOTE: I had already installed upgraded to xorg-libraries-7.3 and I
> suspect that it has a bad interaction for some of the Gnome stuff. I
> just don't know if the problem is in xorg-libraries or in gnome.

Just a bit of added information...the removal of the dependency in
pixman did not fix the problem. pixman no longer depends on gtk20 or
about 100 other ports, but xorg-libraries still claims dependency on
gtk, cairo and pango (and maybe some others) and, as a result, gtk20
still depends on gtk20.
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