The recent RFC for making an alias action for active and inactive reminded me of some queries that I frequently use when working with ports.
Specifically, outdated ports that have been upgraded (redundant), and uninstalled dependencies (outstanding). redundant can currently be achieved with "actinact and inactive" For example: > port selfupdate > port echo outdated > port upgrade outdated > port uninstall actinact and inactive or rather > port uninstall redundant outstanding right now would be "rdepof:<port> and not installed" For example: > port echo outstanding:gimp ...very long list ^C > forget this! One quandary for "outstanding" is whether the rdep search should be performed first, or should branches be pruned as soon as an installed port is discovered? Maybe separate that question into "outstanding" and "routstanding"? There may be better names of course. Is this worth submitting an issue to trac? Or, are these just redundant names for queries that are already possible? I'd like to start hacking on base myself, so I'll be looking at port.tcl, but I don't anticipate having anything to submit anytime soon, just in case anyone considers this such an amazing idea they can't wait to implement it ;-). -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
