The net/mDNSResponder port only depends on gmake, yet pkg using the official repository pulls in too much including avahi-libdns which conflicts: # pkg remove -a Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 packages in the universe): Installed packages to be REMOVED: pkg-1.3.5.1 The operation will free 9 MB Proceed with deinstalling packages [y/N]: y pkg: Cannot delete pkg itself without force flag # pkg install mdnsresponder Updating repository catalogue FreeBSD repository is up-to-date All repositories are up-to-date The following 31 packages will be affected (of 0 checked): New packages to be INSTALLED: mDNSResponder: 544_1 avahi-libdns: 0.6.31_1 gnome_subr: 1.0 avahi-app: 0.6.31_2 expat: 2.1.0_1 i386-wine-devel: 1.7.23,1 indexinfo: 0.2 gettext: 0.18.3.1_1 pcre: 8.34_2 libdaemon: 0.14_1 gobject-introspection: 1.36.0_2 gnomehier: 3.0 python27: 2.7.8_2 python2: 2_3 libffi: 3.0.13_1 glib: 2.36.3_3 perl5: 5.16.3_11 libiconv: 1.14_3 dbus-glib: 0.100.2_1 dbus: 1.8.6 libX11: 1.6.2_2,1 xproto: 7.0.26 libxcb: 1.10_2 libXdmcp: 1.1.1_2 libXau: 1.0.8_2 libxml2: 2.9.1_1 libpthread-stubs: 0.3_5 kbproto: 1.0.6 libSM: 1.2.2_2,1 libICE: 1.0.9,1 gdbm: 1.11_2 The process will require 392 MB more space 15 MB to be downloaded Proceed with this action [y/N]: y Fetching indexinfo-0.2.txz: 100% of 6 KB Fetching gettext-0.18.3.1_1.txz: 100% of 2 MB Fetching perl5-5.16.3_11.txz: 100% of 13 MB Checking integrity... done (1 conflicting) pkg: cannot resolve conflict between remote avahi-libdns(want ignore), remote mDNSResponder(want install), please resolve it manually pkg: SAT: conflicting request, cannot solve pkg: cannot solve job using SAT solver Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Conflicts with the existing packages have been found. One more solver iteration is needed to resolve them.
I verified that this port has no RUN_DEPENDS, not LIB_DEPENDS, and only has gmake for BUILD_DEPENDS. It's worth taking a look at. (over to pkg@)
Do you still have the issue with recent pkg?