deactivate hack in PortfileRecipes?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Mar 5, 2013, at 7:56 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> to avoid this confusion next time, I had documented the deactivate hack
> and explained when and why it is needed as well as how it works:
>  http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#deactivatehack

Ergh. The work is appreciated, of course, but that recipe gets extremely technical. Is it really necessary (or desirable) for a portfile recipe to dig that deeply into the internals?

vq