Ports recommending other ports

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> On Feb 10, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Vincent Lefevre 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).

Let me reword this, as I meant to question, "What happens when the  
recommended variants conflict?"
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