<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Artur Szostak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aszostak@partner.eso.org" target="_blank">aszostak@partner.eso.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">To me, it feels like the MacPorts documentation is misleading the end user to believe that upgrading/downgrading individual packages is a routine and safe procedure, when my experience tells me otherwise. Can anyone point me to the reason behind these design decisions?</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>I suspect you are reading experience with something like yum or apt-get into a ports-based system. MacPorts gets most of its behavior from BSD ports/pkgsrc, and the documentation tends to assume that you are familiar with that.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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