Q: variants specified in dependencies

[Landon Fuller]

On Jul 5, 2007, at 05:19, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:

> I remember there has been discussion about this, i.e. variants  
> specified in dependencies. I wonder what the current status is, as  
> I noticed the ticket about this (#126, the oldest one open, I  
> believe) was milestoned to 1.5. At least in one earlier discussion  
> there were objections to do this due to the difficulty in  
> implementing, but I would like to see this, e.g. because mpkg is  
> based on very short trial useless without this capability (and mpkg  
> is something that I could use). If this means that I should dive  
> into the deep core of MacPorts, I would be willing to give it a try.

My own (potentially unpopular) opinion is that this is possible to  
implement and impossible to support, as it would introduce  
exponential complexity to the dependency tree.

-landonf
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