how to stop variants from propagating down to dependencies

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Dec 30, 2019, at 4:41 PM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I thought I would install the new openal-soft with the gui with the tests as well.
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> sudo port -v install openal-soft +gui +tests
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> I did not already have cmake or qt5 installed on the 10.7 system I was using.
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> Running the above command installed cmake from source with the +gui option, as no binary exists for that, and then started to install qt5-qtbase with the +tests variant until I aborted that.
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> I installed qt5-qtbase separately, without +tests, using the buildbot binary, and then when I installed openal-soft +gui +tests I got what I wanted.
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> So — I guess there is no way around this automatically? 

you could probably do something like port install rdepof:openal-soft && port install openal-soft +gui +tests

In general, though, it's an intentional feature that variants propagate down like that. It's one of the reasons why it's best to have as few variants as possible in a port.

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Daniel J. Luke