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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:30:01PM -0400, Gerard wrote:
> On June 08, 2007 at 05:12PM Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Actually, I ended up using portmanager with the '-p' flag to force
> updating of all dependencies no matter how far down the dependency
> tree they were.

OK, but the point about the cause of your problems stands.  If you're
going to complain about dependency problems, you should consider
instead using a tool that is mature enough to handle them without
causing problems.

Kris