Forcing port reinstalls without rebuilding over and over again

[Paul Schmehl]

--On December 12, 2018 at 2:42:00 PM -0700 Gary Aitken 
<freebsd at dreamchaser.org> wrote:

> On 12/12/18 1:47 PM, Polytropon wrote:
>
>> In my opinion, it's a little better to create your own
>> "top ports list" instead of saving the current state (or
>> at least have both lists at hand, but only use your own).
>> In that "top ports list", you list the things you actually
>> want to use, and you do not care about their depencencies,
>> simply because portmaster can resolve them on its own. So
>> first, your list is much more readable (as it will only
>> contain the software you are interested in, and nothing
>> of the software you might need to build or run them), and
>> second, your list will be much more portable and also deal
>> with the "port not needed, but still installed" problem
>> described above.
>
> That is the way I've done it in the past, using -R -d, and doing so
> does not rebuild dependencies.  I suspect the problem has something
> to do with -a.
>
Well, you kind of need that if you're going to rebuild all ports.

Paul Schmehl, Retired
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