I came across a few ports like this. Most recently www/npm. It usually
turns out that some slightly modified version of sources is kept there @
LOCAL/xxxx.
Why not just have the patches under files/ do the modification, so that
it is public and reproducible? There are also GitHub and Bitbucket,
among other places, to keep sources. There should be no need to allow
LOCAL/xxx as a MASTER_SITE nowadays.
I suggest to abolish this practice. Begin with adding a warning to the
port infrastructure when LOCAL/xxx is specified.
(It makes it more difficult to suggest the patch to such port, because
outsiders should first "reverse-engineer" the patches, which should have
been there in files/ in the first place.)
Yuri
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