port select usage string issue(s)

[ora.et.labora@…]

The usage string of port select is not entirely correct and thus confusing:

$ port select
Error: port select [--list|--set|--show|--summary] <group> [<version>]

# ok, so a *group* argument is mandatory, right?

$ port select --summary mysql
Warning: The 'summary' command does not expect any arguments. Extra arguments will be ignored.
[..]

Obviously not. Thus, the usage string must be:

$ port select
Error: usage:
port select [--list|--show] <group> 
port select --set <group> <version>
port select --summary

My personnel taste on this is to have one action per task, i.e.

$ port select-set mysql mysql56
$ port select-list mysql
$ port select-summary
$ port select-show mysql

[neverpanic (Clemens Lang)]

Thanks, r122827, in the next MacPorts release. I agree we could have separate actions, but I'm not sure the change is worth breaking the existing setup (which users are used to by now). Patches (that possibly add this as optional new variant and deprecate the old one) always welcome, though.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!