lots of changes for a small upgrade increment

[Lenore Horner]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 20:56 , Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:43:16PM -0500, Lenore Horner said:
>> Actually, I deactivate and then install so my variants are respected.
>
> Note that 'port upgrade' keeps positive variants (eg, +variant1,  
> +variant2)
> around by default.
But not negatives I think.  At any rate, upgrade is a sure way to  
trash my Quartz install of Gnucash so I don't use it any more.
>
>>
>> Among the things listed as outdated was the gtk-doc.
>> gtk-doc                        1.11_0 < 1.11_1
>>
>> Why would such a small upgrade cause seven new dependencies to be
>> installed: db46, gdbm, tcl, tk, python26, py26-libxml2,
>> gnome-doc-utils?
>
> gtk-doc was updated to handle varying python versions more  
> consistently with
> other ports with variants (+python25 and +python26), and the default  
> is
> +python26.  So if you already had 1.11_0, it dependend on python25  
> and not
> specifying +python25 for 1.11_1, you get 2.6.  However, your  
> python25 port
> is probably outdated as well as it now brings in some of those ports  
> you've
> listed (db46, gdbm, tcl, tk).
Ah.  Thanks for the explanation.