[52855] trunk/dports/net/deluge/Portfile

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Wed Jun 24 10:39:50 PDT 2009


On 2009-6-25 03:22, David Evans wrote:
> nox wrote:
>> A better fix would be to add a dummy python25 variant to Deluge, which
>> would ALWAYS be enabled through variant_set.
> I don't understand how this would help.  boost +python25 is not an
> option for deluge -- it is a python application and won't build without
> that support.

That is not an argument against this suggestion. It won't work, but
that's because setting a variant in the port1.0 context doesn't make
macports1.0 propagate that variant to the dependencies.

> The changes that I made tell the user exactly what he needs to do to
> install the port without incurring a double build of boost.

It also fails to record a dependency on boost in the registry.

- Josh


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