On Apr 1, 2008, at 03:40, Robert Hinn wrote:
I was wondering: seeing some ports called *-devel in the list, does MacPorts offer a sub-package mechanism? I haven't found anything in the guide, so I considered using variants as a proper way to handle optional features in a software which I would otherwise build a sub- package for.
Anders already explained what *-devel ports are in MacPorts, that we don't have sub-packages, and that variants are the correct place to implement optional features in a port. I just wanted to add that there is already a request to document *-devel ports in the Guide:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14540 See that ticket for more about *-devel ports if interested. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
