-v being a bit too chatty

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Saturday January 30 2016 23:18:40 Joshua Root wrote:

>> 2 questions:
>> - why is the Qt5-kde Portfile parsed when port:qt5-kde is uptodate?
>> - is there a way to silence output from `catch {system ...` even with the -v option? I thought the role of the catch function was also to ... catch the called function's output?

>If you don't want the output printed and logged, don't use 'system',
>that's what it's for.

I don't mind having it logged (I'd like that in fact). Anyway, methought that "system" was foremost an interface to the system(2) call?!
So what else should I use, exec?

R