On Jul 1, 2011, at 04:08, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2011-06-30 21:21:39 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 2011, at 20:27, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> $ port lint pari
>>> --->  Verifying Portfile for pari
>>> Warning: Variant x11 overrides global description
>>> --->  0 errors and 1 warnings found.
>>> 
>>> I wonder what the cause is, as this looks very similar to other
>>> portfiles, for which there are no warnings.
>> 
>> Any port overriding the global x11 variant description should
>> trigger this warning.
>> 
>> I only added the global x11 variant description recently (a month
>> ago) in r78853 which would be why you didn't see it before then.
> 
> OK. So, I suppose that this is an acceptable warning and there is
> nothing to change in the Portfile.

We had decided years ago that we wanted standard variants to have standard 
descriptions, hence the global variant descriptions file. Do we really want to 
override the description of the x11 variant here (or anywhere)? I assumed we 
would not.



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