Proper use of replaced_by

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Aug 16 00:51:32 PDT 2013


On Aug 16, 2013, at 02:33, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> I've been told to use mysql5-server-devel as an example of how to
> properly replace  a port. I now see that
>    https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#replaced-by
> suggest to do it in a slightly different way. In any case it doesn't
> mention the obsolete PortGroup.
> 
> Should the recipe be updated perhaps?

The obsolete 1.0 portgroup is probably the method we should recommend and document.

The documentation in the guide was written before that portgroup was created.

The documentation in the wiki was created because I didn't remember we already had documentation in the guide.




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