lots of changes for a small upgrade increment

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:03:03PM -0500, Lenore Horner said:
> 
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 20:56 , Bryan Blackburn wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:43:16PM -0500, Lenore Horner said:
> >>Actually, I deactivate and then install so my variants are respected.
> >
> >Note that 'port upgrade' keeps positive variants (eg, +variant1,
> >+variant2)
> >around by default.
> But not negatives I think.  At any rate, upgrade is a sure way to
> trash my Quartz install of Gnucash so I don't use it any more.

Right, that's why I was careful to point out it's only for positive
variants; the issue with negative variants is ticket #2377:

<http://trac.macports.org/ticket/2377>

Bryan

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