Default +universal variant for configure-based ports

[Elias Pipping]

Currently, not even 1% of the available ports have a working  
universal variant.

Regards,

Elias Pipping


On Feb 28, 2007, at 5:42 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Feb 27, 2007, at 13:49, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>> That said, I don't think it *should* list universal unless the  
>> port is actually known to work with it. Any proposed solutions?
>
> I don't think anything needs to be done. I don't have any problem  
> with the +universal variant being listed even if it doesn't work.  
> If someone tries it and it does not work, then they should submit a  
> bug report to the maintainer, just as they would for any other  
> problem with the port. Then the maintainer will either fix it or  
> add a universal variant which just outputs a us_msg explaining that  
> a universal build is not available at this time. Problem solved.
>
>
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