On Aug 7, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> 
> 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 was not specified BUT port cpio 
> is activated than add cpio to rpm52 DEFAULT variants.

Yes, that's I mean.

Blair

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