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Date:      Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:58:45 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To:        freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Need testers: modifying ports so dependencies are automatically updated at make install time
Message-ID:  <BD4AA516-13B5-4ADF-8C80-081BE575FF1D@khera.org>
In-Reply-To: <200512301209.37040.ringworm01@gmail.com>
References:  <200512301209.37040.ringworm01@gmail.com>

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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 is run, if any of the ports dependencies are out of date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.




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