non-existent variants
Clemens Lang
cal at macports.org
Fri Oct 10 15:43:19 PDT 2014
Hi,
----- On 10 Oct, 2014, at 23:01, René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a reason for this omission?
Yes:
Consider ports A -> B -> C -> D, where -> is "depends on".
A has no variants, B has +foo, C has +bar and D has +baz
sudo port install A +foo +bar +baz will install
A
B +foo
C +bar
D +baz,
but we actually don't know which variants exist in a Portfile until we've run
it. To avoid running a Portfile twice, MacPorts doesn't check whether you
actually specified a variant that exists.
--
Clemens Lang
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