Lenore Horner wrote:
> Am I correct in thinking that port upgrade outdated will ignore the
> variants of the port which exist and upgrade to the current default
> variant?  If so, why?
> 
> I'm asking because I just did this and I had the quartz version of
> gnucash installed with neither aqbanking nor libofx but the upgrade is
> installing gwenhywfar on which only aqbanking depends.
> 
> Do I have to upgrade each port by hand remembering what variant I've used?

The variant selection on each port will be preserved by upgrade, however
there are two variant-related bugs that affect the current release of
MacPorts (1.7.1) and can cause dependencies other than the ones you want
to be installed:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/8221> (which is what you seem to be
seeing here)
<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/2377>

- Josh

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