[PATCH] system_x11 variant

Bryan Blackburn blb at macports.org
Sun Jan 4 13:35:42 PST 2009


On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:25:56PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston said:
>
> On Jan 4, 2009, at 01:17, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
[...]
>
>> Also, I'm curious about why you override the archive and activate  
>> phases in
>> these (as well as the X11 meta-ports xorg, xorg-apps, xorg-fonts,  
>> xorg-libs,
>> and xorg-proto).
>
> Honestly, I didn't make xorg-proto, and I just used what was in xorg- 
> proto as the base for xorg, xorg-apps, xorg-fonts, xorg-libs...
>
>> Overriding activate causes them to be installed but then
>> remain inactive, and hence show in 'port installed inactive' as well as
>> possiblity causing confusion for those who use 'port uninstall  
>> inactive'.
>
> Ok, so if I nuke those overrides, we should be good then, right?

Right, which I see you've already done.  I'm not sure what the side-effects
would be from overriding archive like that (beyond it simply not making one
of course), but overriding active definitely creates confusion.

Bryan



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