matplotlib segfault

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:12 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>>> % sudo port install py25-matplotlib +gtk
>    ...
>>> I asked for the gtk variant.  Why was the tkinter variant installed?
>
>    Chris> py25-matplotlib does not provide a variant gtk (it  
> provides a
>    Chris> variant gtk2) and +tkinter is the default if no other  
> variant is
>    Chris> specified.
>
> Yet, amazingly, it didn't complain.


That's by design, one reason why is so that you can set variants that  
you always want selected (say +no_x11 or +ipv6) in your macports.conf  
file and it won't cause install failures for ports that don't have  
that variant defined.
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