This mostly already exists: it’s currently only for packages that are installed.
port echo requested port setrequested … Presently, to get your between-installs behavior, you’d dump the output of echo requested to a file then read it back in. Hilariously, our Migration page (!!! this is something that should go away !!!) breaks even this! There’s the tiny after-the-fact note you notice once you’ve lost all the information that “oh, I could have done requested instead of everything". On Mar 18, 2014, at 23:11, Kevin Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the things that would make even a manual rebuild much more convenient > is if MacPorts allowed a port to be “requested” even if it is not installed. > (I think I recall that the Debian package manager works in a way like this.) > > Then the upgrade process would be closer to > > uninstall * > install requested > > This would also be useful in cases like this where a port is broken (can't be > fetched/built/installed); I would like to be able to have a port > requested-but-not-installed as a reminder to install it when it is no longer > broken. OS upgrades are one of the ways ports end up broken, too. > > (If this feature were to exist, it should also remember what variants were > requested; I don't know whether the requested-state information currently > includes this but I would assume not.) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
