RFE: base-1.4.42 Display descriptions of active variants in port info

[gwhitney]

This suggestion is split off from Ticket #11891. One chunk of the patch there added the functionality that port info foo +bar would incorporate the description of variant bar into the long_description of port foo. That's a logically separate suggestion from the bugfix in that ticket, and so should be evaluated and committed separately.

I will attach the relevant portion of that patch to this ticket.

[gwhitney]

patch suggested for this RFE

[kballard (Lily Ballard)]

The idea sounds useful, but I would recommend making the change in the info command directly, not mutating long_description. There is a separation between the port(1) command and the macports infrastructure. If I write an external tool and I want to fetch information about the file, I may not want the variant descriptions tacked on to the end when I ask it for the long_description.

[gwhitney]

OK, I will reimplement this change to work inside of the port info command, rather than modify the long_description string. I'll check in the reimplemented version when I have a chance.

[jmpp@…]

This has been integrated into base for a while already by Kevin (eridius), though I don't remember in what svn revision / MacPorts release.

-jmpp