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I'll be happy to work with someone on writing up a PR that will
update the various ports and see if the maintainers will all
approve it.  I'm not exactly sure how the bsd.port.mk-fu should
be implemented, though.  Suggestions, folks?  (Related question:
does NetBSD have something like this that we can crib?)

mcl