On 2009-08-22 17:57 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2009, at 06:43, [email protected] wrote:
>> +depends_lib         port:R
>> +
>> +variant custom_r description {Use a custom R installation instead  
>> depending on macports' R} {
>> +    depends_lib-delete port:R
>> +}
> 
> Why this? Is there a good reason why someone could not use the  
> MacPorts R and would need to install their own? MacPorts policy is  
> generally to use MacPorts versions of things only.

Especially if nothing else is changed, this would not find another
installation of R as MacPorts does not search outside of the prefix. But
if R is not even required for building, this should be depends_run instead.

Rainer
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