Re: variants, deps and upgrades

Citando Yves de Champlain :

Hi

I'm doing some tests with gtk-quartz. Many hours of genuine delight garanteed.

Now, gtk-quartz does not need Xft2 and xrender. So I made the quartz variant remove those deps. But "port upgrade" will try to install them anyway. So I thought of this. I could make quartz variants for those ports to make them install barely a receipt. Some sort of stub. But it seems like a cheesy solution to me.

Any advice ?

I have also seen port upgrade trying to install dependencies of the without_variant version while I was upgrading a varianted port. Reported as http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12275 . Emmanuel