Forcing a variant to a variant

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 4, 2009, at 18:22, Scott Haneda wrote:

>> The goal is not duplication, but separation, so that you can  
>> declare dependencies on those separate parts. The clamav port  
>> would then install everything clamav except the server component,  
>> and the clamav-server port would install only the clamav server  
>> component (and depend on the clamav port). See the postgresql83  
>> and postgresql83-server ports, and the mysql5 and mysql5-server  
>> ports (now committed), for examples.
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> Got it, thanks!  Not clear on postgresql83-server, that is a pretty  
> large port to only install a start up item.  Why isnt all that work  
> happening in the postgresql83 port?

You can ask the maintainer of postgresql83-server for confirmation,  
but presumably, everything the postgresql83-server port does is  
required only when PostgreSQL is used as a server, and is not needed  
when used only as a client.