variants question

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 11, 2007, at 16:34, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> 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).

Oh really! This is the first time I've heard that.


> 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.

I don't recall. I'll try it again right now.

[some time later]

Ok, it does build apr-util with +no_bdb also, but it still sees the  
db44 dependency and downloads db44 and builds it. Which is what I  
wanted to avoid.