Configuration and environment check command

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Aug 26 22:16:36 PDT 2014


> On Aug 26, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 6:35 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> 
>>> However, I am not too happy with naming the command 'port doctor'. Many
>>> other commands used with port(1) are verbs, but using this as a verb
>>> carries the wrong message.
>>> 
>>> I know where the naming comes from, but there is no need to match any
>>> other terminology and we should rather define our own coherent names.
>>> 
>>> My proposal would be to rename this to 'port selfcheck' instead.
>> 
>> I second the proposal. "Selfcheck" is a bit awkward, but it does parallel "selfupdate" nicely.
>> 
>> Anything would be better than "doctor", which is transparently derivative.
> 
> 'port selfexam' ?
> 'port sefldiagnose' ?
> 
> Just kidding, but they play on the medical theme...

Without remembering exactly what the current "doctor" does, I was going to suggest "diagnose". Personally I want to avoid reusing the "self" prefix because it means if you want to run selfupdate you then have to at least type "sudo port selfu"; currently, it's possible to shorten it to "sudo port self".




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