#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 dluke@…): Replying to [comment:2 ionic@…]:
Several reasons:
2 reasons?
It's easy to grep the file to see which ports use some specific variant or grep the file for a specific port.
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.
Also, using this you can change variants for several ports at once and just rebuild the affected packages by running port upgrade --enforce- variants for instance.
This might be useful, but I've never wanted/needed it. Remember, that variants should be kept to a minimum anyway... -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30328#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS