port list confusion

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jun 20, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:

> I'll throw in a couple of cents worth in (even though we've abolished the penny here in Canada!)

We're still stuck with ours :(

> The -v option in 'port -v installed' adds:
> "(active)" in the obvious cases
> "platform=___" -- I don't see the value in this?
> "archs=___" which is again useful info.

The "platform" field is somewhat useful for debugging migration-related issues.

> Would it make sense to implement 'port list', 'port echo', 'port outdated' and 'port installed' as wrappers to 'port info'?

I'm not sure how this makes sense. The "port info" subcommand is intended to produce as much useful information as is reasonable, not lists of ports. If "port installed" produced the output of "port info" for every port I had installed, I'd shoot myself in the face.

And "port echo" is kind of its own thing. It's intended for checking what pseudoports and complex port specifications (using logical operators and such) evaluate to, which is why it only prints port names.

> * There seems to be a bug with 'port -q list installed' as it lists ALL ports--not just those installed!

What version of base are you running? On latest trunk, that command works fine.

vq