On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2008, at 08:50, Tabitha McNerney wrote: > > I was wondering, is there a way, with the port command-line program, to >> add a variant to a port that you want to install without having to edit / >> modify its Portfile? I kind of was wondering because several days ago Rainer >> mentioned that you can do this type of thingy - magic on the command-line: >> >> $ sudo port install gnutar configure.compiler=macports-gcc-4.2 >> >> It would be cool if one could add a variant in a similar manner, am I >> dreaming? ;-) >> > > I don't know of a way to do that. Why do you want to? Well, a matter of convenience perhaps. For example, I build MacPorts on more than one disk image. Each image has some ports that have different requisites and require Portfile modification to add a variant. Its not really that big of a deal but would be interesting if there was a way to add a variant via the command-line (maybe too difficult considering that some variants need too much extra information that's better off written in Tcl anyway. Thanks, T.M.
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