variants question

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> Is this really true? I haven't tested, but I was under the  
> impression that when installing something with a variant, any  
> dependencies that are installed at this time also have the same  
> variant applied to them. Meaning, if you don't have apr-util  
> installed, and you install subversion +no_bdb, apr-util should also  
> have +no_bdb applied when it gets automatically installed.

That's the way it's supposed to work (and the reason why the variants  
are named the same).

I haven't tried it recently to know if it's broken or not.

Ryan may have had apr-util already installed when he needed to  
rebuild it to get it without bdb.

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