portmaster is not always recursive
Miroslav Lachman
000.fbsd at quip.cz
Mon Sep 7 20:18:48 UTC 2009
Doug Barton wrote:
[...]
>> So the last thought is some new option for portmaster to force
>> reinstall of all intermediate dependencies between A and E, even if
>> there are no updates for them.
>
>
> The -f option already does this.
>
>> Thank you again for you explanation of the problem. It is really
>> educational to me.
I know about -f, but it "always" forces update of dependencies. I mean
something "inteligent" to do update of intermediate dependencies only in
case when some bottom dependency will be updated.
It is just an idea...
Miroslav Lachman
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