Tracking "requested variants" and ways to "get rid of" outdated ones

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Clemens Lang wrote:
> ----- On 19 Feb, 2015, at 16:02, Daniel J. Luke 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.

And doesn't really "scale" well either.

How would you replace variants "[+]clang34 clang35 clang36 clang37"?
    "port install foo +no_clang34 +clang36"?


Clemens, are you willing to create a ticket explaining what you wrote?
(I don't have enough insight into the internals yet.)

Mojca