Deprecating port list

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Thu Mar 12 11:55:35 PDT 2009


> But if you are going to run
>  port install '*abc*'
> you don't know to which ports this would expand.
>  port echo '*abc*'
> gives you the expanded list.
>
> So it is really some kind of diagnostic tool. Should 'port echo' also
> verify the expanded list?


That sounds like functionality I would expect from "port search" but I  
worry that there are some advanced uses that I'm not considering.

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