variant cascade

[Kevin Ballard]

I don't believe so, but this is undocumented. However, I don't think  
it  should either. Here's a setup where it will cause confusion:

http://pastie.textmate.org/153371

There's no requirement that dependencies are processed in order, and  
just looking at the 'tea' Portfile in my example, there would be no  
way of knowing that 'milk' will get built with +bar.

This should be documented, sure, but I don't think it should be  
changed. However, I do think this is another example of how our  
dependency engine fails.

-Kevin Ballard

On Feb 10, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Thomas Reifferscheid wrote:

> Will "port install tea +foo" build the port coffee +bar?
>
>
> Portfile tea:
>
> depends_lib   port:coffee
>
> variant foo requires bar {
> }
> variant bar {
> }
>
> ======================
>
> Portfile coffee:
>
> variant bar {
> }
>
>
> Kind regards
> Thomas
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