* Jason Dixon [2007-12-09]:
> Sorry, I should expand on that.  What I mean is that it seems odd that
> it dives into BUILD_DEPENDS before checking to see if it's installed.
> Only after it resolves the state of its dependencies does it bother to
> see if they (or itself) is even needed.

The ports dir is designed with developer's needs in mind, therefor it
might behave a little strange in certain situations. It looks to me as
if make update was not supposed to be used recursively as there is a
much better mechanism: pkg_add -u. Just use that one and be happy.

Nikolay

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