#30328: Enable variants for specific ports in variants.conf --------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: ionic@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Low | Milestone: Component: base | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: Port: | --------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by webmaster@…): Actually, there is a very good reason for this: If a package requires a dependency to be built with a certain variant, this package will always fail when using port upgrade outdated and require the dependency to be installed manually with the variant again before calling upgraded outdated again. For example: pymol requires tk to be installed with - quartz. Now if I run upgrade outdated and both pymol and tk are upgraded, pymol will fail and require me to install tk manually with -quartz. Then I need to run upgrade outdated again which is very annoying. Actually I believe this is the reason why gentoo introduced the per package configuration in the first place. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/30328#comment:6> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X