See also: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#dependonvariant

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On Dec 9, 2011, at 5:34 p.m., Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> 
> On Dec 9, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is it possible for a port to check if one of its dependencies is installed 
>> with a required variant, and warn if not ?
>> 
>> I ask since the opengl variant of the root port requires mesa to be 
>> installed with the x11 variant, which is not the default. The build fails if 
>> this isn't the case.
>> 
>> The the last update to root I have disabled the opengl variant by default 
>> (previously enabled) because of this, but people upgrading are still running 
>> into problems. 
> 
> If the dependent port/variant combination installs different files you could 
> check for their existence/non-existence.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)
> 
> 
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