PortFile command

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:13 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday January 26 2017 13:59:36 Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > It got tossed around on IRC around a year and a half ago; the conclusion
> > was that it was a lot of complication for very little gain.
>
> A lot more complicated than a procedure copied from (and probably simpler
> than) proc PortGroup plus some additional lines in portinstall.tcl?
>

The complication is that, on installing, the Portfile (and, with this
change, any inclusions) gets saved in the registry so that its uninstall
can be used instead of a potentially incompatible one from a more recent
version (or, potentially, no current version because the port itself was
removed).

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