Add macports.conf setting controlling startupitem.autostart

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

Thread ​here.

I would like to be able to globally disable startupitem.autostart (with a conf setting) just to protect against the possibility that someone has it enabled for something that gets installed as a dependency that I don't actually want running [it would be cool if the implementation of the global 'off' switch for this automatically added a note (or at least a ui_msg) that says what would have been run, or what needs to be run to 'complete' the install].

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

As I mentioned in the thread, I'll try to work on a patch for this, but I'm fairly busy currently. If someone else wants to pick this up, that would be cool :)

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

I’ll work on this, if no one gets to it first.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Cc Me!

[danielluke (Daniel J. Luke)]

Extra Cool! Thanks.

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Cc Me!

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 85ffdc769919e97910a7568b82fdfc65f8fc38f5/macports-base:

Allow disabling autostart of startupitems globally

Fixes: #40074