On May 28, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Randall Perry wrote:

Darwinports ports used to have a Portfile, which sometimes had customization options for the package. It also had contact info so you could email the package maintainer directly.


Are there alternate means of doing this with macports?


Nothing has changed there. 

white:~ root# port edit clamav      

# $Id: Portfile 24229 2007-04-19 13:53:08Z dluke@macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
name                    clamav
version                 0.90.2
categories              sysutils
maintainers             dluke@geeklair.net
description             clamav antivirus software

long_description        Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The \
                        main purpose of this software is the integration with mail \
                        servers (attachment scanning).

homepage                http://www.clamav.net

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