A few random usability suggestions...

[Roger Pack]

On 4/22/13, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:17:25AM -0600, Roger Pack wrote:
>> Ok.  In that case it might be nice to tell people "there is no f
>> variant, btw" so they can realize they've made a command line error ?
>
> that's not as easy as you assume, because the variant specified in this
> command line will also be used for dependent ports built in the same
> step: If vlc has a dependency on a port foo that has a "f" variant, this
> is not an error.
>
> So what we could do is print a warning after the command completely
> executed, along the lines of:
>   "You specified a variant that was not used: -f"

That would be great :)
-r