port variants

Charles darwin macports.users at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 13:39:01 PDT 2008


$ port variant foo
foo has the variants:
         *
         darwin_*

What does it mean to install port foo +darwin_[6-9] as opposed to  
simply port foo? i.e.

$ sudo port install foo
#vs.
$sudo port install foo +darwin_*


Regards,



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