MacPorts 1.7.1

[David Evans]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Has anyone been running the 1.7 branch? Found any problems with it? 
> Should we release MacPorts 1.7.1 soonish? It's been two months since 
> 1.7.0. You know what they say: release early, release often!
>
>     - Make dependencies in port upgrade respect variants as specified
>       (in order of precedence) on command line, latest installed
>       version, or variants.conf .  (#8221, gwhitney)
>
I'd like to make a strong pitch to add this one as without it it is 
impossible to correctly upgrade custom MacPorts installations that depend on
on global variants such as +no_x11 or +system_x11.  Without being able 
to upgrade, the global variants are next to useless.