[MacPorts] #18314: ruby19 nosuffix variant

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#18314: ruby19 nosuffix variant
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 Reporter:  jonbrenner@…          |       Owner:  febeling@…           
     Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  Normal                |   Milestone:  Port Enhancements    
Component:  ports                 |     Version:  1.7.0                
 Keywords:  ruby19 suffix         |        Port:  ruby19               
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Comment(by jonbrenner@…):

 Copied from the mailing list:

 I used a "conflicts ruby" directive to prevent problems when the 1.8 port
 is active on a system. Would that work? I'm new to macports and wasn't
 sure whether the directive signals conflicts with other ports or just
 variants.

 Why would the variant get lost with the next update?

 As for the reason behind it, I am running 1.9 exclusively and prefer to
 have no program suffix. I thought the variant was a clean and appropriate
 way to accomplish that without managing symlinks to each binary
 distributed with the package (ruby, rdoc, rake, gem, ri, etc.).

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