On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 21:37, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It is a bit complicated to do, since we would have to maintain a database 
> somewhere of lists of files installed by ports, by all combinations of 
> platform, architecture, and variants. We have no automatic build 
> infrastructure at this point, so at this time we have no source for 
> generating that info. We should work on creating the automatic build 
> infrastructure for other reasons anyway, then we can basically get what you 
> want for free.

It could start off as an optional feature provided by willing
maintainers.  Include a "manifest" file alongside the Portfile which
lists all installed files.  The ambitious approach would include
support for listing files installed by each variant.


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