"port provides" inside a Portfile?

[Michael Dickens]

Yes, that will work. I had seen the "deactivate hack" in some other
ports, but didn't see a way to check for "contents". Moving that check
to a version check will work. Thanks - MLD

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015, at 10:42 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> Sounds like you actually want the deactivate hack.
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#deactivatehack