macports stages - how to stop server processes?

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

On Oct 20, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> We added "port load" and "port unload" to 1.7. What I think we should
> still do is call "port unload" automatically before we call "port
> deactivate" (if the port was loaded), and then after "port activate",
> we should automatically call "port load" (if the port was previously
> loaded).

I must be missing something.  What advantage is conferred by keeping  
load/unload distinct from activate/deactivate vs simply folding the  
former into the latter?

Thanks,

-- Jordan