[MacPorts] #40042: base should ignore variant conflicts when cleaning

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#40042: base should ignore variant conflicts when cleaning
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  Reporter:  c.herbig@…   |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  base         |    Version:  2.2.0
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:               |
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Comment (by larryv@…):

 Replying to [comment:3 ryandesign@…]:
 > Still not sure how we could enhance base to work around such problems.
 > Perhaps we could special case "`port clean`" and other operations that
 > shouldn't care about variants to ignore them.

 This…
 {{{
 % sudo port clean R +cairo -x11
 --->  Cleaning R
 %
 }}}
 …doesn’t cause any problems, but perhaps setting variants via the command
 line uses a different code path than setting them in `variants.conf`.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/40042#comment:5>
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