Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2...

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:07:25PM -0400, Gerard wrote:
> On June 08, 2007 at 03:48PM Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > It's not an assumption, its OPTIMISM!
> 
> That reminds me of an optimist who fell off of a fifty story building.
> As he passed each floor on the way down, he yelled, "So, so far!"
> 
> Seriously, I hope you are right. I believe it was 'gettext' that was
> updated a short time age. That update caused me all sorts of
> dependency problems. My shell, bash, would no longer work, etc.
> Over a hundred ports had to be updated to get everything back on an
> even keel. That is the sort of problem I am worried about. Hopefully,
> it won't happen.

FYI, if you'd used an upgrade tool like portupgrade it would have been
seamless because portupgrade keeps the old library version around for
precisely this reason.

Kris