Ah, then the meaning has changed. I always pass -f to upgrade because otherwise MacPorts refuses to deactivate the old version if the are any ports which depend on it, despite the fact that it's about to activate the new version.
In times past, the -f flag did not force it to upgrade dependencies that didn't need the upgrade.
I want to upgrade out-of-date dependencies, I just also want to actually install the damn thing.
Is there any solution to this right now?
On Dec 26, 2006, at 12:57 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Yes -- you told it to. That's what "-f" does. It forces the reinstall, even if MacPorts doesn't think it needs to.
If you just want to reinstall Subversion and not its dependencies, also use the "-n" flag.