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Date:      Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:01:52 +0200
From:      Cezary Morga <cm@therek.net>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portmaster -s text (Was: Re: HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped)
Message-ID:  <4A7288D0.4080003@therek.net>
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Doug Barton pisze:
> I can't speak for portupgrade but the vast majority of time with 
> portmaster is actually spent building the port. The updating of 
> /var/db/pkg is trivial in comparison. What portmaster does that 
> bsd.port.mk by itself does not is allow you to update dependencies in 
> place instead of having to uninstall the things that depend on them first, 
> then reinstall them after the update.

Actually, 'make deinstall' deinstalls given port without removing ports 
that depends on it.

-- 
Cezary Morga



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