Configuration and environment check command (was: Re: [124047] trunk/base)

[Ian Wadham]

On 05/09/2014, at 9:59 AM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> On Sep 4, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Does it have to parallel "selfupdate"? "diagnose" works perfectly well
>> by itself without the "self" in front of it...
> 
> Of course it doesn't *have* to. But most of the port(1) verbs operate on ports and port names, whereas "selfupdate" operates on the MacPorts installation itself. So it would make sense to have a "selfcheck" that checks on the MacPorts environment itself, as a whole.

So why not "checkself"?  Cheers, Ian W.