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Subject: Re: portssystem stale dependencies
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On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote:
> .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package
> system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given
> port/package without having met all the dependencies.. 

That's not entirely true, it's really only portupgrade and it's associated 
tools that have a serious problem with stale dependencies. Portmanager is 
much more forgiving, as is direct "make install"  installation.