Forcing a variant to a variant

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 4, 2009, at 18:19, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Is it a terrible idea to pop in a second startup item in which  
>> will just instal the clamav startup item?  This seems messy to me,  
>> but it also will get the job done.

Pop a second startup item in where?

Note that the startupitem.* directives in MacPorts support only a  
single startupitem per port.

> It would make sense for mysql-server to depend on port:mysql and  
> then merely be a startup item.

If you s/mysql/mysql5/g then yes that's basically the status of those  
ports today. Though mysql5-server also does create some directories  
that are only needed when MySQL is run as a server.