Xin Liu wrote: > I don't like default variants either (except for those system-wide > ones like darwin_8). Does "port info <pkg>" show default variants? If > it does not, it's not a good idea to use default variants.
It could be changed to do so :-) I don't like the syntax +without_foo as it reads "with without foo" for me. Why do we have that +/- syntax if we don't use it? The syntax is straightforward as + selects and - deselects a feature provided by a variant. I like that more than deselecting variants with +no_foo or +without_foo And as Yves said, variant naming is totally inconsistent at the moment. There are variants which do the same but are named differently as +no_bdb or +without_bdb. As far as I could find there are the following prefixes: with_ without_ enable_ disable_ no_ If the naming were "correct" we could also make more use of variants.conf. Someone could set -bdb to never include BDB if it can be left out. Or +x11 to always build with support for x11. I would like that more than setting +no_bdb. But as said, port info should show default variants. And they could be also marked (with a star or something) in port variants. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev