An update on 'port reclaim' and 'port doctor'

[Kyle Sammons]

Hey everyone,

I'm Kyle, and I was the one working on the GSoC project, "Project Clean Up
Stuff", which is now finished. During the project I've added two new
commands to port, "port reclaim" and "port doctor" (though we may be
changing 'doctor' to something else in the near future), both of which are
now merged into the trunk and should (hopefully) be fully operational. I
plan on sticking around until I go back to school (September 20th), in
order to fix some bugs that might be in my code, or to answers some
questions people have about it. My plans passed that aren't too clear at
the moment, but hopefully they allow me to still stick around.

Anyways, here's a description of the two new commands:

port reclaim - Removes all unneeded distfiles currently on the system, and
offers to uninstall all inactive applications, if the user desires.

port doctor - Checks for common issues on the users system, and if found,
suggests ways to fix the problem. Doctor accepts one flag (--quiet) which
only shows warnings/errors rather than showing the status of each check.
 There is also a configuration file for doctor located in,
"/opt/local/var/macports/port_doctor.ini", which allows the user to make
changes to certain ways doctor operates, though currently the config file
isn't used as much as it could be.

If you guys have any more questions, or would like to make changes to the
code, or would like for me to make changes to the code, feel free to email
me!

Thanks,
Kyle
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