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Hi!

Michelle wrote:
> ports (post pkg) from source: exactly the same problems as pre-pkg plus
> occasionally the DB would get corrupted and then you have to nuke the
> entire package system from orbit and reinstall all the ports.

Interestingly, I had my cases of strange dependencies chains, but
I can't remember a case where the pkg-db was really trashed to no
longer function.

The more recent pkg versions are very robust for my use cases.

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