[MacPorts] #51664: Please add pseudo-portnames for some common programs

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Jul 1 03:15:51 PDT 2016


On Jun 30, 2016, at 7:25 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:
> 
> Even with that, the proposal would not work for everything. There is no
> port that provides a 'python' binary. The GNU coreutils are provided
> with a 'g' prefix, in order not to override standard system utils by
> default. Searching for the binary name here will not return any results.

Well it would if it were a substring or regexp search, as I think it is now for the other fields...



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