Ports recommending other ports

Tue Feb 10 06:22:40 PST 2009

On 2009-02-10 09:02:15 -0500, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> Would running into collisions be easily solved with that "we recommend" 
> messages?  For example, some program may want PHP +apache2 and another 
> could want PHP +no_web.

One should never recommend a port with a negative variant. This
does not make sense. However, when a port is installed through a
recommendation, additional features (provided by variants) need
not be enabled (unless these variants are recommended).

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