On Sep 30, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Sean Farley wrote: > Ryan Schmidt writes: > >>> The question, to me, is: why is it still not >>> possible to distinguish foo+gcc and foo+clang in MacPorts? >> >> I'm not sure what you mean. > > Why can't all a port's variants be installed at the same time? > > $ port install boost > $ port install boost +gcc48 > > Every port could have its own custom prefix and only the active one > would be a symlink in /opt/local.
That's not what variants are for. That's what subports are for. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev