portindex ignores (filters out) unchanged port

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 5:10 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I renamed kf5/kate to kf5/kate5 to avoid having 2 port directories with
> identical names. That defeats the purpose of organising the port repository
> using the filesystem, but that's another topic.


The usual use case is you are making a local version of an existing port,
likely because you need to InstallingOlderPort; you want it to shadow, not
be available as an alternate.

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