On 2009-09-03, at 1:31 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > If you have further questions about the Guide you would like to discuss, I > invite you to ask them on the macports-users mailing list. This mailing list, > macports-mgr, is for management issues, such as project membership requests.
Hi, I was briefly stumped why darwin_10 was listed as a variant on (for example) the MacPorts available ports query results for wxWidgets despite that darwin_10 was not defined within the portfile as a variant. This remained true despite that I read Guide section 3.2, until after I played around further and queried the command line (I had been using the GUI client Porticus) and after I did eventually get to guide section 5.5. Could you two improvements be considered to Guide section 3.2? 1. can the first sentence be shortened and a follow-on sentence inserted. Variants are a way for port authors to provide options for a port. # truncate here. # add Depending on how variants are written, they may be automatic, or they may be user-selectable during the port install. 2. can a reference to more information be added after the "Note" Note Variant descriptions are optional, so you may not see descriptions for all variants. # add Variants are further explained in the Portfile Reference section. Should I append the above as comments to still-open ticket 18359? _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
