pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?)

[Mike Meyer]

In <20070209111314.GA84731 at lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Michel TALON <talon at lpthe.jussieu.fr> typed:
> Funny that i have just announced a program, that i have called pkgupgrade
> (by analogy with portupgrade, i was not aware of his other work), and whose
> aim is precisely to do the things you want - i don't pretend it succeeds
> perfectly, there may be bugs in it, but its aim is indeed to be a substitute to
> portupgrade, with some differences.

Cool.

> On the downside, for some people it is written in python.

Personally, I think that's cool, but it does means it won't go into
the base system. Portupgrade would probably be in the base system if
it were written in a language in the base system.

	<mike
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