#18314: ruby19 nosuffix variant ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: jonbrenner@… | Owner: febeling@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Enhancements Component: ports | Version: 1.7.0 Keywords: ruby19 suffix | Port: ruby19 ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Comment(by jonbrenner@…): Copied from the mailing list: I used a "conflicts ruby" directive to prevent problems when the 1.8 port is active on a system. Would that work? I'm new to macports and wasn't sure whether the directive signals conflicts with other ports or just variants. Why would the variant get lost with the next update? As for the reason behind it, I am running 1.9 exclusively and prefer to have no program suffix. I thought the variant was a clean and appropriate way to accomplish that without managing symlinks to each binary distributed with the package (ruby, rdoc, rake, gem, ri, etc.). -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18314#comment:4> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS