variants

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Apr 10, 2016, at 4:01 AM, Takeshi Enomoto <takeshi at macports.org> wrote:
> If there is a reason behind treating default_variants and manually set variants,
> I’d like to know.

I'm not sure what the initial reasoning was, but I think the current behavior is correct.

When a port is installed as a dependency of some other port, it should be installed the same way as if it were installed manually first.

ie. A requires B:

port install A 
and 

port install B && port install A

should result in the same final install.

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Daniel J. Luke