port info (was Re: Mplayer and apple remote)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 17:19, Matrix Mole wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> No need to look in the Portfile itself. Just type "port info  
>> MPlayer".
>> That will print out the maintainer's complete email address, which in
>> this case ends with macports.org
>
>
> Wow, for some reason I hadn't ever used that command of port  
> before. The
> info shows both the description, along with all the dependencies.  
> Here I
> had been using port search {portname} followed up with port deps
> {portname} and port variants {portname} to get all the info that  
> can be
> found in port info {portname}. I must say, I'm quite pleased with that
> feature, and glad that you mentioned Ryan, since I'll be using it much
> more in the future.

You should read "man port" and http://guide.macports.org/ ; maybe  
there will be more things you'd like to know! :-)