[38761] trunk/dports/devel/darcs

[Caspar Florian Ebeling]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jul 30, 2008, at 12:50, gwright at macports.org wrote:
>>
>>> Revision: 38761
>>>           http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/38761
>>> Author:   gwright at macports.org
>>> Date:     2008-07-30 10:50:38 -0700 (Wed, 30 Jul 2008)
>>> Log Message:
>>> -----------
>>> Add profiling variant (mostly of interest to those working to
>>> improve darcs internals).
>>
>> FYI, when you add a variant, you don't need to increase the port
>> revision, since nothing will change for those users who already had
>> the port installed.
>
> But on the other hand, if you weren't aware of this variant, there would be no
> way to tell.  With a bump in revision, you can check for new variants.

I think you're mistaken. You do get the latest variants from the
current portfile,
independently of the revision installed.

Florian

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