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ravi <gadfly@exitleft.org> writes:

> unfortunately, 'pkgdb -F' does not suggest the redirections. perhaps, as
> you seem to suspect ;-), i messed up (or plain forgot) the deletion of
> the imake ports. now that i am in the state i am in, would you consider
> it safe to run 'pkgdb -F' (or -s) and provide the xorg equivalents as
> replacements for the XFree86 ports?

It's certainly *safe*, so you shouldn't be worrying about it too much.
The worst that could happen would be that some dependencies would end
up missing or wrong, and portupgrade might miss updating some
dependent ports when explicitly told to upgrade their dependencies.
If you typically run portupgrade with the '-a' option, things will
tend to work out anyway.

With the amount of worry you've put into this, though, you would
probably have the easiest time by just deleting those dependencies,
forcibly removing the imake ports, and doing something like 
    # portupgrade -fR 'xorg*'
which will certainly fix the dependencies between xorg and imake.
This may not be the easiest solution for your *computer*, but I
believe in letting the computer do the work for you whenever possible.

Good luck.