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On Dec 30, 2005, at 3:09 PM, Michael C. Shultz wrote:

> I put together a PR that modifies a port so that when:
>
> make  or make install
>
> is run, if any of the ports dependencies are out of date
> they are updated first before installing the port.  Another

That would be problematic for me.  There are times when an updated  
port suffers a regression and automagically upgrading it without an  
escape clause is bad.