On Nov 8, 2019, at 20:31, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 9 Nov 2019, at 1:39 am, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> If you ran `sudo port install clamav`, and it was not already installed,
>> MacPorts should have marked it as requested. If clamav was automatically
>> installed as a dependency of something else, then it would not have been
>> marked requested.
>
> That sounds like something we should fix to me. Is it not reasonable to
> expect the port in this case, even if it was previously installed as a
> dependency, to still be marked as requested in this case, as that is what the
> user did by asking for it to be installed. The fact it already was shouldn’t
> matter in terms of marking it as requested ?
If you mean that running `sudo port install` on a port that is already
installed should mark it as requested, then that's
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55085.