portmaster with no run arguments.

[Jason]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:37:33PM -0400, jhell thus spake:
>On 09/10/2010 17:35, 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 ?.
>>
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>
>Or better yet. That list seems pretty verbose just for running
>portmaster with no arguments, what about just printing the "Usage"
>information instead, along with the --help as a usage.
>
Or maybe just the Common Flags:
Common flags: [--force-config] [-CGHKgntvw B|b f|i D|d]
     [[[--packages|-P]|[--packages-only|-PP]] | [--packages-build]]
     [--packages-if-newer] [--delete-build-only] [--always-fetch]
     [--local-packagedir=<path>] [--packages-local] [--delete-packages]
     [--no-confirm] [--no-term-title] [--no-index-fetch]
     [--index|--index-first|--index-only]
     [-m <arguments for make>] [-x <glob pattern to exclude from building>]

>
>Regards again,
>
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>
> jhell,v
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Jason Helfman