The more I think about it, there's probably not as much that MacPorts and 
MacUpdater can do for each other as with brew...because brew also provides 
procedures ("casks") for installing commercial software and/or checking for the 
latest version.  MacPorts doesn't do that, it only installs open source (if 
with some few cases where binary redistribution is precluded because of 
incompatible licenses).  Portfiles are kind of analogous to brew casks, but the 
format and  information in them is different; and MacPorts isn't really meant 
to be updated by anything else (give or take an occasional attempt at a GUI).

It's perhaps a bummer that there's no identifier that I can find that indicates 
that a particular .app bundle was generated by MacPorts; that would assure 
deconflicting with other updaters.  But usually those app bundles are in 
/Applications/MacPorts or below, and leaving that alone should hopefully be 
sufficient; and both MacUpdater and MacUpdate Desktop can be told to ignore 
directories (although the latter may not always ignore them as one might 
expect, although maybe it just doesn't ignore subdirectories too).

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