On Jul 1, 2016, at 8:17 AM, Rainer Müller wrote: > Anyway, in order to let 'port install' suggest candidates or > alternatives based on binary names, we first need a database of port > contents. > > This use case would be an example what such an index could be used for. > I would also say that makes it a good case for including such a database > in the ports tree (PackageIndex similar to PortIndex?).
Having that database locally on everyone's system would probably be huge and constantly out of date. I would favor making it a an API on the new web site. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
