version dependencies in MacPorts?

[Rainer Müller]

On 2009-09-13 20:37 , Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> ps I can imagine that this might in concept be solved by
>> requiring the user to do a selfupdate instead, however you
>> would still need a mechanism to stage the build order in
>> a manner that required version/revision dependencies are
>> satisfied in the correct order.
> 
> I believe that's the usual workaround, keep everything on
> the edge and requiring selfupdate and related upgrades.

With 1.8.0 install will try to upgrade dependencies first before the
requested port will be build. This can be seen as some sort of
workaround, as we can never be sure if the installed version would
satisfy the dependency if it is not the latest available version.

Rainer