-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 7, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
If some other ports depend on the port you're trying to upgrade, then port will complain, unless you use the force option. I wish it weren't that way -- I wish port were smart enough to figure out that you are installing an upgrade to the port, not merely uninstalling the port, therefore it should allow the (momentary) uninstallation. However, port is not that smart.
It seems confusing to have word commands (install/uninstall) along with single-letter arguments, in that case. port upgrade <some port> should (says a guy who can't code) just upgrade the port, upgrade any dependences (by which I mean things it depends on) if needed, and clean up after itself. Dependent ports, things that rely on the port you upgrade, do not get upgraded automagically. So, theoretically, if you upgrade gettext, you have to upgrade libiconv and expat. But if you upgrade expat, gettext is not upgraded. - -- Paul Beard contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdb206/ Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQFGGDH0fHLPwpj1/JQRAqsbAJ4yDdYw7edsP2JDuXJwH0w96oheLgCgtYwA TWh77yzwmEtme5TgWFYPlGI= =d8Yo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----