Buildbot failure with variant dependency

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri May 4 17:00:48 PDT 2012


On May 4, 2012, at 18:20, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2012-5-5 07:27 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> Variants are bad.
> 
> Variants are good. Variants that change the way the port's dependents
> are built (or whether they can build) are bad.

Well I think variants are also bad in the case that they're for optional features that could be built separately. c.f. subversion +mod_dav_svn:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34130




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