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Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 2/20/06, Chandan Haldar <chandanh@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Thanks a lot for the direction.  All goes well until portupgrade asks me
>>to run 'pkgdb -F',
>>which asks me to resolve stale dependencies.  I have a large number of
>>ports installed and
>>the dependencies seem somewhat intractable for manual resolution.  Is
>>this the only way
>>to resolve the stale dependencies or am I as usual missing something :-(
>>?  From the pkgdb
>>manpage I could not understand the implication of the score and how that
>>helps me
>>select a new dependency...
> 
> 
> 
> If you have some spare time, consider reinstalling all
> the ports.

You might try sysutils/portmanager first. It upgrades lowest 
dependencies first then works it's way up the dependency tree so stale 
dependencies are not usually a problem. It works very well.

Chris