Tracking "requested variants" and ways to "get rid of" outdated ones

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Thu Feb 19 07:14:31 PST 2015


Hi,

----- On 19 Feb, 2015, at 16:02, Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net wrote:
> or we could avoid default variants (and maybe go back to having +no_foo variants
> for the corner cases where someone wants to build with less functionality if
> necessary).

that sounds like a step backwards, especially since the proposed solution isn't
all that hard to implement, but switching to +no_foo requires adjusting thousands
of Portfiles.

-- 
Clemens Lang


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