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 (message from Adam Vande More on Mon, 14 Oct 2013 20:07:14 -0500)
Subject: Re: Advice sought on Portmaster -Faf and deleted ports
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Adam Vande More wrote:
> 
> > It does seem like a bit
> > of over-kill to quit updating ALL ports because one is long
> > gone. Seems like it could do the others.
> >
> 
> So it should continue on and potentially build 1000's of ports with broken
> linking and dependencies?  Portupgrade will do this if you tell it.  Try it
> out and see what fun you can create.
> 

Not a single program on my system depended on that program being
rebuilt. Portmaster should certainly refuse to rebuild anything that
did, of course.