deactivate hack in PortfileRecipes?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 5, 2013, at 04:34, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2013-3-5 11:32 , Leo Singer wrote:
>> I was wondering if someone who is very comfortable with the 'deactivate hack' would please post a code snippet and line-by-line explanation in the Wiki under <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes>?
> 
> I would hope nobody is particularly comfortable with it. It's referred
> to as a hack for a reason, so it's not something we really want to
> encourage.
> 
> We should be aiming for a solution in base, perhaps an option like
> deactivate_conflicting that would trigger the same behaviour for the
> listed ports as if they were marked as replaced_by the port being activated.

replaced_by already handles deactivating the replaced port. It's for cases where a port isn't replaced, but rather a particular file moves from one port to another, where the deactivate hack is needed.