depends_* with variants in Portfiles?

[Joshua Root]

On 2009-5-26 05:37, PGNet Dev wrote:
>   "dependencies need to allow inclusion of variant"
>    http://trac.macports.org/ticket/126  ( Opened 7 years ago !? )
> 
>          " ... but if you would like to discuss why this should be
> implemented and how it could be done, by all means bring it up on
> macports-dev. When a consensus is reached, more code can be written.
> ..."
> 
> it's not yet doable :-/

A proper fix needs some more information stored in the registry, so #126
is effectively blocked on the completion of registry2.0. After that,
what needs to be done isn't conceptually difficult, it's just a lot of work.

- Josh