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Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, pav@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: New /bin/sh based script to manage ports
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Panagiotis Astithas wrote:

> Can portmaster be used to do something like 'portupgrade -rf gnutls'
> (i.e. rebuild all dependent applications), like it is often requested in
> UPDATING?

At the moment, no. That feature is very low on my list of things to
implement as I hardly ever find it necessary to do this. However, it would
be a useful thing to implement, so I'll have a look at it.

Thanks for the suggestion,

Doug

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