Command line glob expansion broken-ish

[Bill Cole]

Example:

shiny:~ root# port installed *proto
The following ports are currently installed:
   xorg-xorgproto @2021.4_0
shiny:~ root# port installed |fgrep proto
   xorg-compositeproto @0.4.2_0 (active)
   xorg-damageproto @1.2.1_0 (active)
   xorg-fixesproto @5.0_0 (active)
   xorg-kbproto @1.0.7_0 (active)
   xorg-randrproto @1.5.0_0 (active)
   xorg-renderproto @0.11.1_0 (active)
   xorg-xineramaproto @1.2.1_0 (active)
   xorg-xorgproto @2021.4_0

I do understand the issue, I think: the glob is being expanded against 
the names of ports that still exist in the current ports tree, not the 
ones that have been installed but have been superseded by (in this case) 
an omnibus port that won't activate because of the existing 
installations.

The obvious workaround was to manually uninstall each of the zombie 
ports individually. I wonder if anyone else considers this a bug?




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