myports.txt vs requested.txt

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 24, 2018, at 01:50, Michael Newman wrote:

> I decided to compare the ports found in myports.txt with those in requested.txt.
> 
> I figured that every port in requested.txt should also be in myports.txt.
> 
> But, that’s not the case. Requested.txt contains only the following ports:
> 
> ImageMagick
> clamav
> ffmpeg
> gstreamer010
> gstreamer010-gst-plugins-base
> gstreamer1
> gstreamer1-gst-libav
> gstreamer1-gst-plugins-bad
> gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good
> gstreamer1-gst-plugins-ugly
> ipcalc
> libsdl2
> switchaudio-osx
> 
> It doesn’t include many ports that are in myports.txt, such as curl, wget, and dnsmasq, all of which I know I specifically requested.
> 
> Why is that?

I guess MacPorts doesn't think you specifically requested them. A port is marked as requested if you "sudo port install" it when it is not installed, or "sudo port setrequested" it when it is installed.