On Jan 7, 2007, at 3:28 PM, belinda thom wrote:
How am I to know if I should be installing a port w/no extra
variants used?
In particular, I want to install subversion, whose info is:
--------
32 % port info subversion
subversion 1.4.2, devel/subversion (Variants: mod_dav_svn, no_neon,
no_bdb, mac_os_x_server_mod_dav_svn, tools, darwin_7)
Unfortunately there's no simple, standard way to tell what variants
one might want for any given port. It would be nice if MacPorts
showed more context on a variant, but as far as I can tell, it's up
to the given port maintainer. Sometimes when I'm faced with a
similar question, I'll look at the actual port file to see if I can
ascertain what a variant is doing:
cat `port file subversion`
I will say that from experience you will probably want +mod_dav_svn,
as it provides access to WebDAV-hosted repositories, which includes
many public SVN repos. I've tried building Subversion with +no_neon
and +no_bdb, but it either caused problems later or didn't make any
obvious difference.
Here's a link to the Subversion website that should describe what
"tools" means:
http://subversion.tigris.org/tools_contrib.html
--John
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