Removing a port

[Jeremy Lavergne]

> I'd like to remove a port ('montage') that I set up originally and
> which doesn't follow the guidelines for setting the C compiler,
> because this is virtually impossible without re-arranging the whole
> package. This port is causing issues for users who are relying on it,
> so I would like to remove it as soon as possible, an remove it as a
> dependency for a couple of other ports. The guide mentions to insert a
> warning in pre-configure - are there any examples of ports that are
> already doing this so that I can get an idea of how to do this? Would
> it also be ok to remove it sooner than one year? The port is not
> working well at all and causing issues for users, so I'd much rather
> just remove it as soon as possible.

You might grep for something using PortGroup obsolete 1.0, or simply read the PortGroup's source. It's pretty straight forward.