Question regarding +debug variant of KDE ports and qt4-mac

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jun 29, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29/06/2014, at 7:52 PM, Marko Käning wrote:
>> on the kde-mac ML the question came up whether the necessity to install qt4-mac in its
>> debug variant - when one simply needs KDE ports installed in their debug variant - is only
>> due to MacPorts' way of handling port variants...
>> 
>> If that's indeed the case, it may seem to be a good idea to replace in all KDE software
>> ports the debug variant by a new variant - perhaps called debug_kde. In that case all
>> ports depending on kdelibs4 would nicely manage their debug_kde variants amongst
>> themselves and not mess with the standard-MacPorts debug variant at all anymore.
>> 
>> The debug output of qt4-mac is very verbose and of no much use when debugging crashing
>> KDE applications anyways. Also one would not be forced to install "qt4-mac +debug" from
>> source and only be left with locally rebuilding the much smaller KDE ports.
>> 
>> What do you think?
> 
> ++1 from me!!!
> 
> I would also like us to consider something similar for +docs, especially with KDE.

At the risk of variant bloat we could also s/replace/add/ +debug_${name} and +docs_${name}.

Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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