----- On 8 Mar, 2015, at 19:39, René J.V. Bertin [email protected] wrote:
> Can a port have variants that it doesn't "advertise"? In other words, what > happens if a portfile uses `variant_isset` to check whether or not a variant > has been selected, but doesn't contain (or contains a commented-out) > declaration for that variant? Yes, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's a good idea, especially since the recorded chosen variants in the registry might behave unexpectedly. > Context: the +exclusive variant of my co-installable qt4-mac port version. I'm > quite confident by now that it is no longer required, but see no point in > making it impossible to use just yet. Just edit the description and make it clean it shouldn't be used? I see no reason to use any of the trickery you described above. -- Clemens Lang _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
