On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:34:35PM +0000, Csaba Henk wrote: > > There is currently only one method (to my knowledge) of updating > packages in in pkgsrc - using make update (which is what pkg_chk -u does > aswell). Unfortunately, it will begin by removing all packages that > require the package being updated. > [...] > pkgmanager attempts to alleviate these problems by upgrading all > packages "in place" without needing to remove all packages that require > the package being upgraded.
And this behaviour is exactly what I wouldn't want to use on a server, since it means a lot more russian roulete (e.g. are minimum requirements correctly specified? did the ABI of a package really stay consistent etc.). Enough developers don't fully understand ABI issues, that's why "(b)make replace" is and always will be marked as dangerous. Joerg
