[52043] trunk/dports/tex/texlive_base

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Jun 11 14:56:59 PDT 2009


On 2009-06-11 22:17, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Since they produce the same output, and MacPorts doesn't present  
>>> checkboxes or radio buttons to the user, I don't think that that's  
>>> really a valid distinction.
>> I think it is valid, since several MacPorts GUIs have already been  
>> produced over the years, and Juan Germán is working on one for GSoC  
>> 2009.
> 
> Except that there's no reason why one or the other implementation in  
> the Portfile needs to map directly to one or the other UI

I think what Ryan was going to say is what there are currently two
different use cases for variants. Selecting additional features
(checkbox) or choosing from multiple possibilities (radio buttons).

Rainer


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