How to depend on a variant (or do I want subports)?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 31, 2012, at 4:35 PM, MK-MacPorts at techno.ms wrote:
> On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> that vercmp thinks is newer but is actually older), we ask the port author to increase the epoch.
> Which is very unwanted on the other hand, since it is so sticky, i.e. will have to be increased forever once it has been added to a port file, right?!
> So, it's best to find a way around epoch!

?? why would anyone care? The whole point of epoch is to be able to deal with situations like this, I don't see why anyone would want to go to extra effort to avoid using it.

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