port -N reclaim does not remove any ports

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

When reclaim is started in non-interactive mode with sudo port -N reclaim, the command will check for "unnecessary unrequested ports", but will not remove any of them.

$ sudo port -N reclaim
--->  Checking for unnecessary unrequested ports
Found unrequested ports without requested dependents: qt5-qt3d, grep, grep, gmake, py27-sphinx, py27-sphinx, [...]
--->  Checking for inactive ports
--->  Building list of distfiles still in use
--->  Searching for unused distfiles
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors
--->  No broken files found.

I expected the command to remove all listed ports without asking me for confirmation, similar to the behavior of commands like port -N install that assume 'yes' as answer in non-interactive mode.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

I think the issue is that "yes" is not a valid answer for it. I see this:

Enter option(s) [1-82/all]: 

So it should say "all" in this case.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

You are right, this is a 'multichoice' as it is called internally. What I meant is that the command should continue as if the user chose to remove all of the ports.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #55698.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

The default for port -N reclaim should be to just delete everything, while one could still use port -N -y reclaim (dry-run) to see what it would do.

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

Pull request: ​https://github.com/macports/macports-base/pull/65

[raimue (Rainer Müller)]

In 08d0a695cae3f69740bb99d48e6a78772128dc50/macports-base:

reclaim: Respect -N and -y flags

Do not ask questions in non-interactive mode (-N), but still run all the
checks and remove ports and files by default. Do not delete any files in
dry-run mode (-y), even if the user confirmed the removal.

Closes: #53857