Tabitha McNerney wrote:
> What I find interesting is that I have never used, to the best of my 
> knowledge, "port configure <portname> +foo +bar", etc. I only do an 
> initial "port fetch" and then I edited the php5 Portfile to make my 
> additions and then I ran port install +foo +bar ... so this is a wee bit 
> confusing unless even the fetch phase should be conducted *after* I've 
> my the additions to the php5 Portfile?

Once you realize that variants could change the files to be downloaded, 
it should be clear. 'port fetch +foo' could download additional files 
which would be left out otherwise. So you have to select the variants 
already at the fetch phase and keep it through the other phases.

Rainer
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