[MacPorts] #38091: alpine @2.00_4: update to 2.11

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#38091: alpine @2.00_4: update to 2.11
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  Reporter:  larryv@…  |      Owner:  john@…
      Type:  update    |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:
Resolution:  fixed     |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  alpine    |
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Comment (by jerryyhom@…):

 OK, humor me while I try to understand your reply.  Essentially, your
 considerable efforts are to transition the portfile to explicit positive
 variants while maintaining compatible behavior; after about a year, you
 will remove the transitional code, completing the transformation to
 explicit positive variants; everything is virtually identical.  Please
 correct me if my summary is wrong.

 Now, hopefully these are received as constructive comments.  Please
 understand, my mindset is in trying to simplify and enhance alpine's
 portfile.  On one hand, your changes seemed to go the other way and
 complicate it, but on the other hand, I think you could have saved
 yourself some time.  Let me know if we should discuss this directly via
 email and off this ticket.

 Generally, your explanation in your first paragraph probably belongs in
 the Guide.  The portfile recipes and perhaps many parts of the wiki could
 go in the Guide.

 Alpine specific, since you are cleaning up some depends_libs, the only
 depends_lib necessary is openssl, at least on my 10.9 system.  In fact,
 because the upstream code does not conditionally code around it, the
 --without-ssl option (and variant) is useless, and probably no one has
 tried and complained.  The libs iconv and ncurses are already provided by
 OS X; if not on older systems, they could be conditional, but probably a
 minor point here.  Alpine builds on my system without gettext, but also
 probably a minor point.

 When or why did the without_tcl variant become obsolete?  Do you mean
 because MP implicitly has Tcl that the variant is obsolete?  Your comment
 in the portfile is unclear.

 Two more comments which tie together.  Overall, more commenting would
 help, either in the portfile or descriptions about your changesets.  You
 are experienced, know what you are doing, and if you were the only one
 looking at the code, you would easily go on doing fine work.  However as
 you know, portfiles are under scrutiny by others, usually maintainers.  Of
 course, you may do as you like as a committer, but as MP is a distributed
 management system, please be more mindful of others reading your code.  I
 am trying to learn MP, but I am learning that the role of maintainer is
 easily trampled over by committers.

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