mpi

[Sean Farley]

Ryan Schmidt writes:

> On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
>
>> Lawrence Velázquez writes:
>> 
>>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:52 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I understand the proposal, but I don't agree that we should implement it.
>>> 
>>> It does seem like it would introduce a great deal of complexity to address what is clearly (to me, at least) an antipattern (using variants to select build options).
>> 
>> The complexity is much greater, indeed. And not something I wish to
>> implement in tcl.
>
> It's not just the complexity of modifying base. You're proposing that instead of each port being installed to the same /opt/local prefix, each port would be installed to its own prefix. This would probably require rebuilding all ports, not to mention manually editing most of the portfiles (to change how they find their dependencies), of which there are about 10,000 at this point. I just don't see how anybody's ever going to have the time to do that.

Yes, might as well start over at that point :-)