General questions about install order and variants (Apache2, PHP5, Postgre

[markd at macports.org]

Chris Pickel <chpickel at stwing.upenn.edu> on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 1:06
PM -0800 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.

That's my question too.  Why isn't it a platform statement?

Mark