I would expect the searching ability to included on all these (e.g., list updates foo*).This is already possible for existing commands which accept lists ofports. Additionally, the use of pseudo-ports is possible, which can alsobe combined using logical operators. These allows to make complicatedqueries which is unique to MacPorts as far as I know. As we have such afeature I also don't think we can simply adopt commands from other systems, these just wouldn't fit. Note that the command echo exists to test such expansions: port echo depends:expat and 'a*' Gives you a list of all ports that depend on expat and start with the character 'a'.
I'm confused why the user has to come up with all these queries rather than just doing:
port list depends:expat a*It just seems that in order to use these "special features" a lot more work is done by the user each time rather than devoting that energy to having MacPorts do stuff. Granted you can write a program to know what your user is doing.
list extras and list recent, I have no idea what is meant by those.
Extras is just a repository for things outside the main repo. Recent are basically "added in X days" or since you ran it last --- software you might to try out or know about.
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