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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Then why not protect all other upgrade operations with a -f | --force flag, except when upgrading everything? It seems much too easy at the moment to perform an upgrade operation
that has a good chance of leading to an inconsistent state.<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF425484"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Brandon Allbery [allbery.b@gmail.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 September 2015 16:32<br>
<b>To:</b> Artur Szostak<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Macports Users ý[macports-users@lists.macosforge<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Versions in ports<br>
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<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>
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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>
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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">
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