xpdf and poppler conflict on /opt/local/bin/pdffonts

[uhi1e3b02@…]

# port activate xpdf
--->  Activating xpdf 
Error: port activate failed: Image error: /opt/local/bin/pdffonts is being used by the active poppler port. 
Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
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Versions (these are the newest versions as of creating this ticket):

• xpdf 3.02, Revision 2
• poppler 0.8.0

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

xpdf has a variant with_poppler that should be what you're looking for
(it was originally reported as a bug in #10705 and fixed in r22853).

[uhi1e3b02@…]

Thank you. The following worked:

# port install xpdf +with_poppler

I hope this can help the next person who hits this (bug #10705 is not clear).

It would be good if installation worked automatically (by selecting the variant automatically? or by having common package with pdffonts used by both xpdf and poppler? or some other way?) or at least on failure if it printed some information on how to resolve the problem.

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