[MacPorts] UsingMacPortsQuickStart modified

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Dec 1 03:52:14 PST 2008


Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2008, at 15:17, MacPorts wrote:
> 
>>  `sudo port upgrade outdated`
>>
>> -(you can add the `-v` flag following "port" in the above command if
>> you'd like to watch the compiler output).
>> +To upgrade all outdated ports and their dependencies:
>> +
>> +`sudo port upgrade -R outdated`
>> +
>> +(You can add the "`-v`" flag following "`port`" in the above commands
>> if you'd like to watch the compiler output.)
> 
> Do we really want to advise users, in the quick-start guide, to use the
> -R option, which, according to multiple reports, doesn't work so great?

We certainly don't want to encourage them to use it in the given
example, where it's completely useless.

- Josh


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