On 2011-08-08 00:50 , 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... ?

We have this on our list of ideas for GSpoC, but we never got a
compelling proposal for this project. It would require a lot of changes
to the code (install, upgrade, port cli client, ...). At best the
student would have to be familiar with the code, which most are not.

Rainer
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