variants vs separate ports

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 24, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> I still don't understand why you set up some of your ports this way instead of the more straightforward method (have the +q8 configure args in the default configure args, and have the variants just remove the +q8 stuff and add their appropriate args).
>> 
>> To me, Portfiles are always clearer if they can avoid using variant_isset.
> 
> I my particular case there is no configure. The author has you edit .config so I am patching .config and use reinplace.

You could probably do something similar (apply a patchfile by default, but have a variant remove that patchfile and substitute another one, for example)

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