Why should I use macports?

[Scott Haneda]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2009-10-17 05:09, Scott Haneda wrote:
>> This is how problems go...
>> 1) port install foo
>> 2) error
>> 3) email mailing list, get advice
>> 4) port -d install foo
>> 5) email -d log to mailing list
>> 6) profit
>>
>> Why can't macports always run a debug log, not to stdout, but to an
>> install.log, that was perhaps rotated, or kept the last install at  
>> least.
>>
>> If (error)
>>  ui message: you may want to post your error log to the mailing list,
>> it is located at /opt/local/var/log/macports/portname-debug.log
>>
>> Looking at the list archives, those 6 steps are repeated often, this
>> would save list admins, members, users, etc an entire set of steps,  
>> and
>> get resolution of port install issues solved much faster.
>
> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#logging>
> <http://trac.macports.org/browser/branches/gsoc09-logging>
>
> - Josh

Very nice proposal. Glad to see it on the roadmap.

-- 
Scott
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