We need to construct a virtual port. We wish to allow our users to
have one-click installation access to a coterie of ports in MacPorts, between
six and twenty of them which are constituent ports making up an open-source
Matlab replacement called Python(x,y). There is no current metaport for this,
and no instructions on how to make one, though it is trivially easy (thank
you!) to construct a metapackage for a single port and all of its dependencies.
What I'm looking to construct is a port which itself installs nothing,
but whose dependencies cause all of the constituent ports comprising
Python(x,y) to be installed. Then I can make a metapackage for that port, and
distribute the resulting ".mpkg" file to our users.
Is there an accepted, canonical way to do this? The trivial way to do
it would be to null out all the parts of a portfile, except the "devroot"
(install) section is not allowed to be null.
Mike O'Brien
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