Re: Search for port contents for any port...?

2015-04-04 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday April 03 2015 23:01:14 Jeremy Lavergne wrote: No. I rarely have need for this kind of thing myself. I do see an interest for knowing the install size of a port and its dependencies. It's a pity that MacPorts cannot really provide that kind of information. On Linux, seeing the amount

Search for port contents for any port...?

2015-04-03 Thread Carlo Tambuatco
Is there some sort of method for listing the port contents of any port whether it is installed or not? Like say I want to find out exactly what files a given port will install before I actually install it? ___ macports-users mailing list

Re: Search for port contents for any port...?

2015-04-03 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
No. You can manually achieve this if prebuilt archives of the software are distributable. You would download the archive and list the contents. For example, to see what's in qt5-mac you would: 1 download an archive from https://packages.macports.org/qt5-mac/ such as `curl -O