On Jun 18, 2007, at 14:45, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Since we've confirmed the problem, I've filed a bug:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/12137
I hope that will not be the end of the discussion, though, and that someone will continue thinking about a way to solve the problem...
Just to complete the thread here on the list, in case anyone was waiting for the resolution: I worked around the problem for ports that depend on XFree86 by deleting its nonfunctional universal variant. See #12137. I filed new tickets for what I believe to be bugs in base; I don't think I would have run into the original problem if those issues in base didn't exist. See #12169 (MacPorts shouldn't evaluate variants of non-required dependencies) and #12170 (the default +universal variant shouldn't appear in ports where we know it won't work).