On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Carlo Tambuatco <[email protected]>
wrote:

> When you upgrade a port, everything it depends on gets updated first,
> right? What doesn't get upgraded should not affect what does get upgraded
> during the configure/build/install/activate phase, right? So how is using
> -u different from uninstalling everything and reinstalling everything again?
>

When the new version of a port has different dependencies from the old
version.

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