portsupgrade cvsup refuse file aware?

[Aluminium Oxide]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:00:02 -0500, "Kris Kennaway"
<kris at obsecurity.org> said:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:49:32PM +1030, Aluminium Oxide wrote:
> > Currently, proper use of portsupgrade relies on currency of pkgdb. pkgdb
> > does not work without a complete ports tree. A complete ports tree is
> > often much larger than a locale-specific installation requires, or is
> > maintained, confined by the use of cvsup refuse files. This is a bit of
> > a catch 22.
> > 
> > How much better would it be, if pkgdb had a flag to permit the parsing
> > of the refuse file, and honouring the ports tree resulting from cvsup as
> > produced by it?
> > 
> > Can we do this?
> 
>Not really, this has been discussed many times.
> 
> Kris

Why not?
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