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)
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