portssystem stale dependencies

[Philip Lykke Carlsen]

Sunday 20 November 2005 03:18 skrev RW:
> On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote:
> > .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package
> > system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given
> > port/package without having met all the dependencies..
>
> That's not entirely true, it's really only portupgrade and it's associated
> tools that have a serious problem with stale dependencies. Portmanager is
> much more forgiving, as is direct "make install"  installation.

Well, then I think that I'll give portmanager a try.. thanks :-)