On Sep 4, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Eric Gallager <eg...@gwmail.gwu.edu> wrote:

> Does it have to parallel "selfupdate"? "diagnose" works perfectly well
> by itself without the "self" in front of it...

Of course it doesn't *have* to. But most of the port(1) verbs operate on ports 
and port names, whereas "selfupdate" operates on the MacPorts installation 
itself. So it would make sense to have a "selfcheck" that checks on the 
MacPorts environment itself, as a whole.

(I know, rev-upgrade and sync [and probably others] don't really operate on 
ports per se. It's a rough guideline.)

vq
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