[MacPorts] #55508: autorequested (mark some unrequested leaves as requested)

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#55508: autorequested (mark some unrequested leaves as requested)
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 Reporter:  eiked        |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
Component:  ports        |    Version:
 Keywords:               |       Port:
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 I frequently upgrade my ports.

 From time to time I like to cleanup.
 I therfor invoke:

 {{{
 port uninstall inactive
 port uninstall leaves
 }}}

 But the leaves include some stuff that will be needed on the next
 {{{
 port selfupdate
 port upgrade outdated
 }}}
 again.

 This is not so much of a problem on a modern, fast machine,
 but on old and slow machines where not even prebuild binaries are
 available,
 this becomes a drag.
 (just upgrading an 400Mhz Tiger machine)

 I am well aware of:
 {{{
 port setrequested ...
 }}}

 I found that some of the ports are used very frequently by other ports
 (curl)
 and/or are very tedious to rebuild on a slow machine (boost)

 **I'd like to suggest**

 - there should be a list of ports that are //autorequested// by default
 - it should be possible to modify or disable this list

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 I know that this will be highly controversial.

 This breaks the current assumption,
 that only first hand manually installed ports are marked as requested.

 But I have encountered this problem so many times now,
 that I believe that this could improve the ease of using macports.

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 Sidenotes:

 In theory:
 {{{
 leaves: installed ports that are unrequested and have no dependents
 }}}


 Which I believe works as expected,
 but breaks my expectations on
 {{{
 port uninstall leaves
 }}}


 or alternatively we need something like:
 {{{
 port cleanup
 }}}


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 Thanks to everyone working on macports.
 works like a charme!

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55508>
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