From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 11 00:39:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58A29106566B for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:39:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBBD8FC08 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:39:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24510 invoked by uid 399); 11 Sep 2010 00:39:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 11 Sep 2010 00:39:31 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C8ACFC5.8000603@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:39:33 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4C8AA484.5050105@DataIX.net> <4C8ACEB8.9060106@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4C8ACEB8.9060106@FreeBSD.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: portmaster with no run arguments. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:39:32 -0000 On 9/10/2010 5:35 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 9/10/2010 2:35 PM, jhell wrote: >> >> Hi Doug, >> >> Just thought I would write you about an unexpected output from >> portmaster to get your opinion. I just ran 'portmaster' alone without >> any arguments to get the list of "--help". Surprising enough to me it >> searched for a null port and output the following. >> >> ===>>> No valid installed port, or port directory given >> ===>>> Try portmaster --help >> >> Would it be wise if portmaster was run with no arguments that it just >> output the '--help' by default ?. > > That's what it used to do, but the list is way too long now to be > meaningful in this context. > The current output tells the user why it errored out, and > gives the recommendation on where to look for more information, which I > think is quite reasonable. > > > Thanks for your interest, > > Doug > -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/