On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: > > On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > >> That works around the problem for *this* case, but the problem (in general) >> has been around for a long time. I don't think "auto variants" is what you >> need. The solution is to add variants to dependencies, so one could say >> something like this to require that the rpm52 port be built with the cpio >> variant: >> >> depends_build.append port:rpm52+cpio >> >> I thought there was a GSOC about this at some point… ? > > That's not really what I want. I'm happy with the ports I have installed now > and if I need to install another port, then if it can use the ports I have > installed, it should, otherwise I don't want to build the dependency. I > don't want to go through all ports all the time and check out the variants. > I guess this is me being lazy, but that's what a port system is for, isn't it > :)
Blair: I thought you were meaning; IF +cpio is not specified AND port cpio is an activate port; than add cpio to rpm52 ports DEFAULT variants. Regards, Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
