Thanks Joshua! That was one old (and long-lived) ticket. :)
Yes, it would be better if the dep had subports. What would be better (ie good “portiqette”)… Adding subports (keeping the variants), or replacing variants with subports? · Eric On 9/16/19 4:55 , Joshua Root wrote: > On 2019-9-16 12:44 , Eric F (iEFdev) wrote: >> /Evening all,/ >> >> To pass along a variant for a dependency, without having to add in when >> you install. >> How do you do that? …or is there really no other way than adding it >> during “port install”. >> >> One /would/ like to do: >> >> ``` >> depends_lib.append port:first \ >> port:second +foo_bar \ >> port:third >> ``` >> >> // That doesn't work, but as a visual for the question. >> >> I tried adding an extra variant with the same name and set to default, >> but no luck. >> >> Any ideas? or is it just not possible? > <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/126>
