Manually registering dependencies for ports

[RW]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:04:37 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 07/06/2010 17:34:39, RW wrote:
> > If it's a metaport then it does have an origin.
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> It certainly needs an origin if some other port is going to depend on
> it.  Which is usually the case for metaports, but not necessarily so.

A metaport is a port and has an origin by definition. What you are
referring to is a metapackage.