<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><blockquote type="cite">Imagine that you're reactivating the last (older) version of a port to support 32bit, or more fashionable, the last to support Intel architecture. You wouldn't want that to cause its dependencies to be upgraded/activated to a version that dropped support for that particular architecture. </blockquote></pre><div>I imagine the desired solution would be to keep the final 32bit or intel version around as a separate port with its own dependencies, as MacPorts currently does in some cases for PPC and/or old OS's in general.</div><div><br></div><div>Anything else strikes me as extremely fragile. Those libraries could also be updated by an entirely different port, which actually needs the new versions.</div></body></html>