Well, that is not the current behavior if a variant is specified manually. What happens is:
port install A +var does port install B +var && port install A +var. Why do you think it would be inappropriate to do that for default variants? On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 10, 2016, at 4:01 AM, Takeshi Enomoto <[email protected]> wrote: > > If there is a reason behind treating default_variants and manually set > variants, > > I’d like to know. > > I'm not sure what the initial reasoning was, but I think the current > behavior is correct. > > When a port is installed as a dependency of some other port, it should be > installed the same way as if it were installed manually first. > > ie. A requires B: > > port install A > and > > port install B && port install A > > should result in the same final install. > > -- > Daniel J. Luke > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev >
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