How to specify a variant to depends_lib in a portfile?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 17:37, Mike O'Brien wrote:

> The problem is that in our case, it's very unlikely that the user will have any variant of the subject port installed at the time he installs the metaport.  However, if you install the subject port via lib_depend, the "wrong" variant gets selected.  That's what I'm trying to avoid.

I explained in my post how to avoid it.