[MacPorts] #34877: avahi: opportunistic linking?

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#34877: avahi: opportunistic linking?
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 Reporter:  snc@…             |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal            |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports             |     Version:  2.1.99                               
 Keywords:                    |        Port:  avahi                                
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Changes (by snc@…):

 * cc: ryandesign@… (added)


Comment:

 I suspect it's due to the quartz/x11 debacle downstream: the buildbot is
 producing an archive build against one spec and since there aren't
 variants to indicate these are different, MacPorts blindly accepts these.
 If I'm using +quartz -x11, this would cause the archive of avahi to be
 broken upon installation since many libraries are not found that it built
 against on the buildbot.

 Similarly, if I change which gtk2/cairo/pango are installed, then avahi
 would break.

 Adding variants will help for now, but we really need to split apart this
 whole quartz/x11 thing into separate (sub)ports.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34877#comment:3>
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