How do I find information about variants?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 23, 2007, at 19:34, Markus Weimer wrote:

> And the original question remains: How would I have found out about
> this without bothering the mailing list?

If the name of the variant does not explain its purpose, you can read  
the source code of the portfile ("port edit foo"). If that doesn't  
help, you can ask the port's maintainer.