Hi, It's been a while that I miss a possibility to switch between foo and foo-devel ports without having to do the deactivation manually in a separate step. A normal `port activate foo` takes are automatically of deactivating the currently active version; how hard would it be to extend the activate syntax so it accepts an "instead of <port>" argument that would replace the "currently active" port to be deactivated?
Example: %> sudo port activate --instead_of -f libVLC-devel libVLC@2.2.1_0+dbus+qtkit+quartz+x11 (or --replace or --swap or some other more appropriate term) instead of %> sudo port deactivate -f libVLC-devel@3.0.0-150503-g7385062d_0+dbus+qtkit+quartz+x11 %> sudo port activate libVLC@2.2.1_0+dbus+qtkit+quartz+x11 The main reason for such a convenience feature is of course that the full specification of a port to be (de)activated is often an illegible expression that typically doesn't select entirely by double-clicking it. R. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
