patching in general

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:12, markd at macports.org wrote:

> But then we could probably do with a lot of macros that we don't  
> have now.
>  Things like portage has (dobin, dodoc, etc.) would be a higher  
> stage of
> development that we may get to someday.

Could you describe what these do? All I know about portage is that  
it's a package manager for Gentoo Linux, but I don't know how it  
works inside.