Added MacPorts solution for depext for a few conf packages #16912
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This PR adds a MacPorts solution for 4 conf packages which only had a homebrew solution on macOS.
What I am unsure about are the rules if an existing package should be modified or a package with a new / incremented version should be created. I followed what seems to be common practice for each individual package but ended up to do it differently. I would appreciate some general advice on this and some special advice for the case of adding a depext MacPorts solution.
Note: the handling of variants in MacPorts (like "gtk3 +quartz") doesn't look solid. It seems to work but depext treats this partly as separate packages (e.g. when listing what to install) and partly as one package (e.g. when sorting packages).