On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:13 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday January 26 2017 13:59:36 Brandon Allbery wrote: > > It got tossed around on IRC around a year and a half ago; the conclusion > > was that it was a lot of complication for very little gain. > > A lot more complicated than a procedure copied from (and probably simpler > than) proc PortGroup plus some additional lines in portinstall.tcl? > The complication is that, on installing, the Portfile (and, with this change, any inclusions) gets saved in the registry so that its uninstall can be used instead of a potentially incompatible one from a more recent version (or, potentially, no current version because the port itself was removed). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
