selfupdate and readline support

[Joshua Root]

Rainer Müller wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The readline support for MacPorts is disabled by default and has to be
> enabled using --enable-readline. The release disk images we release are
> built with support for that. But on running selfupdate, there is no
> --enable-readline in the default configure flags, no matter if the
> currently installed version supports readline or not. So everyone
> updating using selfupdate will have port without readline support.
> 
> What was the reason again to make readline not the default? Is this also
> the same reason why it is not enabled in selfupdate?

This thread is what led to readline being disabled by default:
<http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-November/006973.html>

- Josh