How remove port info but not installed files?

[Jan Stary]

On Apr 18 12:01:12, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> 1. Without using MacPorts, I directly installed TeXLive 2011 (as
> part of MacTeX).
> I didn't realize that that distribution included the source files
> and build/install instructions for the asymptote application. So ...
> 
> 2. I used MacPorts to install asymptote.
> That automatically did a MacPorts install of texlive 2011 (which,
> via #1, was already installed), on which it depended.
> 
> Now I have apparently have a great deal of duplication from texlive
> in general, and asymptote in particular

On Apr 18 13:30:38, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Indeed, it's space I want to conserve on my relatively small SSD boot drive.
> 
> It's the original MacTeX TeXLive 2011 installation I want to keep --
> and NOT the MacPorts version.
> 
> (Various reasons for that preference, including a very helpful GUI
> maintenance utility that's part of MacTeX.)

Well, do the right thing then: create a patch to texlive's Portfile
to include this helpful utility in the texlive port :-) Then you can
have it all via macports.