I remember there has been discussion about this, i.e. variants specified in dependencies. I wonder what the current status is, as I noticed the ticket about this (#126, the oldest one open, I believe) was milestoned to 1.5. At least in one earlier discussion there were objections to do this due to the difficulty in implementing, but I would like to see this, e.g. because mpkg is based on very short trial useless without this capability (and mpkg is something that I could use). If this means that I should dive into the deep core of MacPorts, I would be willing to give it a try. ! ! Jyrki Wahlstedt ! http://www.wahlstedt.fi/jyrki/ ! ! Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one and perhaps will. ! PGP key ID: 0x139CC386 fingerprint: F355 B46F 026C B8C1 89C0 A780 6366 EFD9 139C C386