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

Hmmm...  That leads to a follow-on question.  Can this macports.conf file be
used to globally get all C/C++ code to be compiled with -g?  If not, is
there some way to do it once (not editing every portfile)?

Thx,

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