-no_X11 and dmg size for tuxmath

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Thu May 5 22:24:19 PDT 2011


On 2011-5-6 14:26 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> The flat registry that MacPorts used to use could not remember variants you turned off (i.e. those specified with "-") which led to a convention of using variants with "no_" in their name, leading to constructs like "+no_x11" ("turn on the no_x11 variant"). Now that MacPorts has the sqlite registry which does remember turned-off variants, we prefer positively-named variants, specified as default variants where applicable, that the user can turn off if desired (e.g. "-x11": "turn off the x11 variant").

The flat registry actually does store negated variants as well in
MacPorts 1.9.0+.

- Josh


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