[MacPorts] #55085: Trying to install a port which is already installed should mark it as requested.

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#55085: Trying to install a port which is already installed should mark it as
requested.
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 Reporter:  paulp                             |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  Normal                            |  Milestone:
Component:  base                              |    Version:  2.4.1
 Keywords:  installed requested setrequested  |       Port:
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 {{{#!bash
 % port installed requested | ag ansifilter
 % port install ansifilter
 --->  Cleaning ansifilter
 --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
 --->  No broken files found.
 % port installed requested | ag ansifilter
 %
 }}}
 And yet:
 {{{#!bash
 % port uninstall ansifilter
 --->  Deactivating ansifilter @2.8.1_0
 --->  Cleaning ansifilter
 --->  Uninstalling ansifilter @2.8.1_0
 --->  Cleaning ansifilter
 % port install ansifilter
 --->  Fetching archive for ansifilter [...]
 % port installed requested | ag ansifilter
   ansifilter @2.8.1_0 (active)
 %
 }}}
 Surely the port has been requested exactly as seriously in the case where
 it turned out already to have been installed as a dependency of something
 else. More so, since I apparently want it so much I didn't have time to
 notice I already had it.

 This makes the same installations on different machines have context
 dependent results - where my lists of requested ports should match, they
 do not. I realize I can manually setrequested each time, but I am one of
 those unfortunate people who suffers terribly under mental burdens such as
 these.

 As an aside, on the theory that '''setunrequested''' being an alias for
 '''unsetrequested''' sets a pretty low bar for alias urgency, perhaps we
 could trim '''port installed requested''' down to '''port requested'''.
 The ability to distinguish requested ports from incidental dependencies is
 in my estimation the biggest advantage of macports over homebrew, and it
 would be even more so with a new coat of paint. Burying it as a postfix
 adjective doesn't show it off to best advantage. Especially since they
 probably found it by typing '''port list requested''' and being instructed
 they should have typed a different command, while it slooooooowly
 generates approximately the same output.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55085>
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