On Aug 29, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Joshua Root wrote:

> On 2012-8-30 05:22 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> 
>> I was not suggesting to drop the 25 and 27 subports.
>> 
>> The list thread "handle only subports install files" is where you 
>> "discouraged" (my words) useless top-level ports:
>> On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>>> Again, why have a useless top-level port in the first place?
> 
> In that case it was useless because trying to install it threw an error.
> But anyway, why bring this up against this specific port submission when
> every unified python port works the same way?


You are a MacPorts manager and this sounded like a directive.
On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
> If you can't decide which one to declare
> at the top level, roll dice or something.

It is now clear to me that there is no problem with a stub port used as a 
"subport container".

Thanks for clearing this up for me.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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