I agree that the implementation could be better - it doesn't look super-complicated, perhaps making this less surprising/less destructive would be a good first project for someone interested in working on macports-base?
> On May 10, 2021, at 3:53 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Too late now, but IMO, if it had been three state (tag absent as well as > unrequested and requested values) from the first introduction of that tag, > and automatic assignment of "unrequested" was conservative enough, then one > wouldn't have to tag everything one wanted to keep as requested. In other > words, ports already installed at the time of the introduction of the tag > could have been handled differently from those installed later. Also, some > ports that seem just meta-ports to install a bunch of others (like kdegames4) > should IMO, if explicitly installed, tag all the ports they install that are > not just build-time dependencies as requested (if they don't already - I > don't know when the tag was added, nor when I installed kdegames4). > >> On May 10, 2021, at 01:13, Randal L. Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>>>> "Gerben" == Gerben Wierda via macports-users >>>>>>> <[email protected]> writes: >> >> Gerben> That was a mistake I now know. Reclaim will remove active unrequested >> Gerben> installs. But the help/man does not say so. >> >> Let me just say that as a long-time Macports user, I also got burned >> badly by this. -- Daniel J. Luke
