Replacing a variant with many dependencies

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 19, 2012, at 08:08, Freek Dijkstra wrote:

> Freek Dijkstra wrote:
> 
>> I like to change a variant of a port with many dependencies.
>> 
>> In my case, change "python27" to "python27 +ucs4"
>> 
>> Unfortunately, a simple `port install python27 +ucs4` fails.
>> (The destroot step fails while building Python.app while importing
>> pyexpat with "Symbol not found: _PyUnicodeUCS2_Decode", see below)
> 
> FYI, I used a workaround to fix this. Let me report here in case someone
> encounters this issue and is looking for a solution.
> 
>> I'm not sure if this a regular bug, or caused by the fact that I still
>> have another Python variant installed.
> 
> I was close. It was caused by some files installed from py27-xml

Ah, so another consequence of:

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32090