On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 06:29:57PM +0200, joerg van den hoff wrote: > would `port upgrade texlive' throw out an old texlive-latex-extra rather > than upgrading (or ignoring) it? it shouldn't do that but could it?
Yes, this can happen on occasion. MacPorts doesn't have great support for enforcing that a bunch of ports, like all of texlive, should be upgraded at once. In particular, if a file moves from the older version of one port to the newer version of another, which happens fairly often with texlive, it can create a false conflict. There are hacks in some of the portfiles to forcibly deactivate conflicts so this doesn't break the upgrade. Usually this works out fine, and the new versions of all of the ports get installed correctly. Depending on the order the upgrades are run in, though, and especially if the upgrade is interrupted, some package might be uninstalled. Dan -- Dan R. K. Ports https://drkp.net/
