On Apr 8, 2014, at 02:00, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > These days I spend my time switching back and forth between Linux/Debian and > OS X. The various package management tools I use on the former (apt, apt-get, > aptitude) all have a very similar syntax, but port has a number of > just-or-completely different command names. The one that I mix up most is > info vs. show, but I rarely get the commands for listing dependencies right > at the first try either. > I've created a duplicate of the action_array's info entry so that I can do > 'port show', but how possible would it be to create aliases? (One could even > think of a table that's read from file...) > > I admit, my memory is no longer what it used to be, but nowadays I don't > really care anymore if I can master all of ls's options without referring to > the docs :)
You should be able to create aliases in your shell startup file. As for incorporating aliases into MacPorts itself, that doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I don’t use other package management systems, so I personally am not familiar with what commands other systems use. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
