Deprecating port list

Jay Levitt lists-macports at shopwatch.org
Thu Mar 12 09:53:39 PDT 2009


Rainer Müller wrote:
> This is basically 'port outdated'. What would be the use of this if it
> is so similar?

I think "port list" could/should be an alias for "port outdated".  I'm not
usually a fan of synonyms, but "list" is a basic function, provided by yum,
gem, and quite probably others.  Sure, you can document it in the wiki, but
why force users to look something up and type a different command when you
already know what they mean?

Is there a use case where someone would be displeased by the output of "port
outdated" when they do a "port list", and where they'd be more pleased to
see "Please see the documentation" or "No such command?"

Jay Levitt


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