General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

[Chris Pickel]

On 18 May, 2007, at 15:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On any port, +macosx, if available, is auto-selected if you're  
> running Mac OS X, which is everybody.

Ah. Isn't it normally 'platform macosx'? When I look at a Portfile, I  
assume variants are mine to select and platforms are handled by  
MacPorts.

> I find this confusing and intend to fix it soon so that +apache  
> uses the MacPorts apache port. There will then be a new variant  
> +apache_apple which will use Apple's Apache. And the default, if  
> you select neither +apache nor +apache2, will be to not include any  
> Apache support. This seems clearest.

Agreed. Of course, it's not really an issue to me, since I only need  
+fastcgi :)


Chris
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