Of variants and revbumping.

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 16, 2013, at 12:54, Eric A. Borisch <eborisch at macports.org> wrote:

> I'm preparing to commit the changes to mpich that have been discussed on the mailing list [1] and a ticket [2].
> 
> I will revbump port that depend on mpich by default so new distributable archives can be built.
> 
> But for other modified ports, I have a quick question of preferences: should I revbump ports that optionally (and not by default) depend on mpich, or just let rev-upgrade catch those?
> 
> For users installed without the specific (typically +mpich or +mpi) variant selected, the revbump would be a gratuitous rebuild, even though the Portfile has changed in the variant sections to select the newly supplied bin/libs from mpich[-devel]-default...
> 
> I can go either way -- I'll be modifying the Portfiles already. Is "rev-upgrade will catch it" an acceptable answer?

That's the way I went when I updated gd2 to 2.1.0 recently. I think it's reasonable. What do others think?