[135907] trunk/dports/math/octave-database/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On May 6, 2015, at 1:08 PM, michaelld at macports.org wrote:
> 
> Revision
> 135907
> Author
> michaelld at macports.org
> Date
> 2015-05-06 11:08:43 -0700 (Wed, 06 May 2015)
> Log Message
> 
> octave-database:
> + update to 2.3.2;
> + move postgresql 8.[0-2] to legacy variants, using 9.2 as the default if one of those is already in use;
> + addresses ticket #47650.
> 
> Modified Paths
> 
> 	• trunk/dports/math/octave-database/Portfile

> +# legacy postgresql variants; can be removed 2016-05-01
> +# use of < 8.3 removed as of 2.3.2.
> +
> +set legacy_postgresql_suffixes {80 81 82}
> +
> +foreach s ${legacy_postgresql_suffixes} {
> +    set p postgresql${s}
> +    eval [subst {
> +        variant ${p} description "Legacy variant" \
> +            requires postgresql${default_postgresql_suffix} {}
> +    }]
> +}

Why not just remove these variants? It would have the same effect. (If there were binaries, it would have the added benefit that users could use those binaries because they would then be using the default variants, but there don't seem to be binaries of this port.)