On Feb 8, 2009, at 21:24, Thomas de Grivel wrote:
just thinking out loud : maybe we could suggest variants as well ?
I would say no to this suggestion, because a port should already come pre-configured for the recommended setup out-of-the-box without needing to select any variants. There may be variants to turn off certain recommendations if appropriate, but the user can find all that out by typing "port variants <portname>". But there is no command that a user can type today to get a list of other ports that are recommended in combination with a given port. In the cases I cited (graphviz and postgresql) the user can type "port search <portname>" and see those other ports, because they contain the original port's name, but that may not always be the case.
and propose building (or even rebuilding) ports with more sensible variants according to installed ones ?
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