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Hi!

> Obviously, I am not a "ports" grue, but why can't the ports version of
> "boots" be updated to the latest stable version, 1.59.0 as shown on the
> "boost" website <http://www.boost.org>.

Because many other ports depend on boost, and those need
to be considered as well. See

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199601

Dependency trees are really, really tricky to work with.

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