On Feb 9, 2007, at 07:25, Mike Roberts wrote:
Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would say creating variants for this optional functionality would
be best. It would be bad if two different people ran the same command
("sudo port install lyx") and ended up with different functionality,
just because one of them had, for example, the latex2rtf port already
installed and the other did not.
You should create a variant for latex2rtf support, and for any other
such optional features. If the variant is specified, add a dependency
on the latex2rtf port and build lyx with support for latex2rtf. If
the variant is not specified, lyx *must not* build with latex2rtf
support, even if the latex2rtf port is already installed. (Use a --
without-latex2rtf switch, or whatever the lyx project provides to do
that).
that sounds fine, though it seems to me that the proper way to do
things
would be to have +rtf and +no-rtf variants to specify specific desires
and the lack of a variant would be the default for the port. it seems
that to do otherwise would weaken the usefulness of the variants.conf
file.
First, I would say that a variant name should not include a hyphen.
That's problematic. Use an underscore if you want to separate words.
Then, I would say that you should have either an +rtf variant, or a
+no_rtf variant, but never both. (What would it do if you did not
specify any variant?)
I have never used the variants.conf file so I have no comment on that
feature. Well, maybe I do: the comment would be that variants vary
from port to port, so I can't see any usefulness in a global way to
specify variants that should be used for all ports.
could one use variants to implement an abstract port? for example,
could
i write a port called abstract/tex-previewer and have different
variants
to select dependencies for aqua/TeXShop and x11/advi? perhaps an +aqua
variant to specify that a default aqua-enabled previewer should be
used...
I don't know about that.
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