usage numbers for macports vs. homebrew?

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Tue Mar 18 20:27:17 PDT 2014


This mostly already exists: it’s currently only for packages that are installed.

port echo requested
port setrequested …

Presently, to get your between-installs behavior, you’d dump the output of echo requested to a file then read it back in. Hilariously, our Migration page (!!! this is something that should go away !!!) breaks even this! There’s the tiny after-the-fact note you notice once you’ve lost all the information that “oh, I could have done requested instead of everything".

On Mar 18, 2014, at 23:11, Kevin Reid <kpreid at switchb.org> wrote:

> One of the things that would make even a manual rebuild much more convenient is if MacPorts allowed a port to be “requested” even if it is not installed. (I think I recall that the Debian package manager works in a way like this.)
> 
> Then the upgrade process would be closer to
> 
>   uninstall *
>   install requested
> 
> This would also be useful in cases like this where a port is broken (can't be fetched/built/installed); I would like to be able to have a port requested-but-not-installed as a reminder to install it when it is no longer broken. OS upgrades are one of the ways ports end up broken, too.
> 
> (If this feature were to exist, it should also remember what variants were requested; I don't know whether the requested-state information currently includes this but I would assume not.)



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