[GSoC] migration

[Arno Hautala]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
>
> Depending on a variant is currently impossible.
>
> ...
>
> You do have to install the ports in dependency order to get it right, and
> that is what restore_ports does. There may be cases where previously
> inactive ports don't build due to requiring a specific variant in a
> dependency that was also inactive. (Which is equivalent to "you can't depend
> on a variant".)

So a port might "require" on a variant, but it can't express that
dependency without user action?

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