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>
>
> Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves
> are installed, because some ports will use alternate dependencies
> according to what's already there. It makes things a lot easier to
> maintain.
> _______________________________________________

btw xdm is not the worst offender for example if you install abiword
after installing gnome it will not start but if you install it before
hand then install gnome no issue