[Bug 273341] Porter's handbook: a meta port should describe itself as such

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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:29:36 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273341

--- Comment #7 from Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Graham Perrin ◐ from comment #6)

> If there's no value, then why do so many meta ports describe themselves as
> such? 

For several reasons.
One is that we had metaports way before we had USES=metaport
Another reason is that it doesn't hurt. That is not the same as to say that it
adds any value.

So far you have failed to provide any reason as to why this should be in the
documentation.

> The suggestion is intended to make things fairly easy, fairly obvious,

You fail again to explain *what* is made easier and more obvious.

What value adds the fact the the user is aware that a port is a metaport by
looking at the description?

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