Yes, however, it’s not as convenient as seeing what ports you have that have 
new upstream versions. I would rather take more computing time and resources 
then my time manually doing `port livecheck py-virtualenv` and the other ones. 
My time is much more valuable than 4 times the number of HTTP requests.

Blair

> On Aug 31, 2019, at 10:57 AM, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It is intentional that the version specific py ports have livecheck none. The 
> idea is you don’t need every one of the versions performing the check, only 
> the non versioned port.
> 
>> On 31 Aug 2019, at 5:50 pm, Blair Zajac <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I care about such ports, e.g. py37-tensorflow and py37-virtualenv, so I 
>> would have that in requested. So that appears to not directly solve the 
>> issue.
>> 
>>> On Aug 31, 2019, at 9:16 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> As an alternative or workaround, would narrowing to `port livecheck 
>>> requested` be useful for you?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 8/31/19 11:58 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> It appears a number of ports, particularly py-* ports, use “livecheck.type 
>>>> none”. I find running ‘port livecheck installed’ a handy way to see if any 
>>>> of the ports I care about have an update, however, this doesn’t work for 
>>>> the py-* ones.
>>>> Can something be changed to support this? Would the livecheck code need to 
>>>> specially handle the port name when ${name} is a py??-* variant?
>>>> Blair
>>> 
>> 
> 
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