Why should I use macports?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 16, 2009, at 13:09, 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.

That would be what the GSoC '09 logging project was all about.

http://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#logging

Did that ever get done?