matplotlib segfault

[Chris Pickel]

On 06 Mar, 2008, at 21:12, 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.

It doesn't complain because MacPorts allows variants to cascade to  
dependencies--for example, if you had nothing installed and specified  
"py25-matplotlib +gtk2 +quartz", then despite the lack of a "quartz"  
variant for py25-matplotlib, all other ports (e.g. gtk2) would be  
installed with it.