Hunks failed, is this bad?

[Kris Kennaway]

RW wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:23:52 +0200
> cpghost <cpghost at cordula.ws> wrote:
> 
>> IIRC, it's portmanager that patches bsd.port.mk on the fly
>> (and backs the change out when it is done). Or it did so a
>> while ago; I don't know if it still does today.
>>
>> Try to update portmanager, or use something else like portmaster
>> or portupgrade, if updating portmanager didn't work.
>>
> Portmanger acquired this feature just before Schultz went off in a
> huff. 
> 
> What it does is is patch bsd.port.mk so that it calls back
> into portmanager allowing it to modify dependencies. I haven't 
> checked the code, but since I've not seen any evidence of
> portmanager trying to modify dependencies in the last few years, I
> suspect that the support for the callback is just a stub. If that's
> true then using an unpatched file is harmless. 

Wow, that is so wrong :O

Kris