#30328: Enable variants for specific ports in variants.conf ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: ionic@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Low | Milestone: Component: base | Version: Keywords: | Port: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment(by ionic@…): Replying to [comment:3 dluke@…]:
2 reasons?
At least that's what came into my mind so far, yeah. :)
it's easy to grep the output of 'port installed' to see which ports use some specific variant or grep (or specify) the output for a specific port.
Yes, but port installed takes "ages" to process (~2 seconds on my machine), whereas grep variants.conf is "instant". :)
This might be useful, but I've never wanted/needed it.
Oh I did on several occasions, for instance when fiddling with universal because of different circumstances where I did need 32bit libs too (a mess...) or tried to enable GTK's aqua interface... and disable it again as it sucked.
Remember, that variants should be kept to a minimum anyway...
That may be true, but while we have it, why not improve this feature's handling? :) -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30328#comment:4> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS