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 Write an interactive command-line tool that can be used instead of the non-interactive port(1). (The existing "interactive mode" of port(1) is actually just batch mode reading from stdin, and is not really interactive.) Factor out code used by both tools into a shared module.
 
-An interactive tool would ask for user input to resolve many situations that cause port(1) to simply error out. 
-
-All the suggested interactivity use cases are listed below-
-
-1. If you try to install a port and one of its dependencies conflict with something already installed, it could ask if you want to 
-   deactivate the installed one and its dependents and reactivate them after the build.
-2. When trying to install a port but one of the files installed by this port is already present, ask the user whether the file should be
-   overwritten.
-3. When a user tries to install a port, display a list of ports that will be installed as dependencies and ask for confirmation (unless
-   there aren't any dependencies to be installed), like apt-get does.
-4. Asking for permission in a situation where uninstalling a package will break another package that's still installed and depends on   
-   the to-be-uninstalled package.
-5. When installing a port that requires a dependency to have a certain variant, but this variant is not set. Ask the user if it should  
-   reinstall the dependency with that variant.
-6. When activate is ambiguous, present a list of installed ports for the user to choose from.
-7. Ask user before rebuilding in rev-upgrade.
-8. When a user uninstalls a port using --follow-dependencies, the list of dependencies will be displayed and the user will be asked for  
-   confirmation.
+An interactive tool would ask for user input to resolve many situations that cause port(1) to simply error out. For example - If you try to install a port and one of its dependencies conflict with something already installed, it could ask if you want to deactivate the installed one and its dependents and reactivate them after the build. 
 
 * Difficulty: Medium
 * Languages: Tcl, C
 * Potential mentors: TBD
 
+More details about the project [wiki:SummerOfCode2014_interactive here].
+
 ==== Project Clean-up Stuff ==== #cleanup
 
 The plans for this project are to combine the ideas of "Reclaim Disk Space" and "Configuration and Environment Selftest". This involves adding a "brew doctor"-esque command which will look for common issues such as a port that is known to cause issues, multiple versions of the same library, not having the correct dependency installed, or any other common issue and then report all found to the user. It also involves improving the already implemented "port clean" command to be able to delete and clear out more disk space than it currently is able to by deleting distribution files from a certain version of an application, removing distribution files currently not needed/in use, deleting/uninstalling ports that are no longer in use, or any other way possible.  
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