On Dec 12, 2012, at 07:00, Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-12-11 20:44, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Dec 11, 2012, at 11:35, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Revision: 100423 >>> https://trac.macports.org/changeset/100423 >>> Author: [email protected] >>> Date: 2012-12-11 09:35:51 -0800 (Tue, 11 Dec 2012) >>> Log Message: >>> ----------- >>> port: >>> Add new command line parameter --unrequested to the install command. This >>> way >>> one can install a port without marking it as requested. >> >> Ooh, that's nice. I might even want to do that all the time (using a shell >> alias) and manually use "sudo port setrequested" when I actually want to >> keep a port. I install a lot of ports to test them, not because I really >> want to keep them around afterward. > > My use case is that I want to install port foo, but during the > installation of dependencies I encounter an issue with port bar. So I go > on fixing this port until a 'port install bar' succeeds. But then it is > marked as requested and I have to run 'port unsetrequested bar' to > remove the requested state from the registry. Yes that's pretty common for me too. > With this change, I will now use 'port install --unrequested bar' in the > step of fixing port bar and then the port is properly marked as being > installed as a dependency. I'll probably have trouble re-training myself to do that :) _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
