On 2007 Dec 09 (Sun) at 07:50:41 +0100 (+0100), Nikolay Sturm wrote:
:* 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
:
Does pkg_add -u handle ports that can't be distributed as binaries (i.e.
updates to Java)? Last I checked, that wasn't available.
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