port uninstall should consider upgraded ports

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Yves de Champlain wrote:
> Example (the story is real, only the versions numbers have been  
> changed) :
>
> port upgrade gtk2
> 	...
> port installed :
> 	gtk2 2.10.4
> 	gtk2 2.10.8 (active)
> port uninstall inactive :
> 	can't uninstall gtk2 2.10.4 because gimp2 depends on it.
>
> I am right to expect NOT having to force such an uninstall ?

probably... this is a long-standing bug in how dependencies are  
tracked, though.

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