BTW, another approach to allow a more centralised management of patches (and probably other stuff) would be to support multiple ports in the same port dir. That's not currently possible, is it?
> Rather than copying, you could also use symlinks, but I'd still argue that's > a bad idea... Actually, how would trace mode handle a files "directory" that is in fact a symlink to the files directory in another port directory, like with my "qt5-mac-angel" empirical port: qt5-mac-angel: Portfile Portfile.qt5 -> ../qt5-mac-devel/Portfile.qt5 files -> ../qt5-mac-devel/files R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
