port upgrade outdated order

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 06:26:10 PST 2015


On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:29 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> So to you it's OK if a port fails to build because it pulls in things from
> an earlier, installed version of itself that were not blocked because the
> feature was not enabled, and do so without as much as an explanation?


Port bugs are never OK. A diagnostic/debugging mode that is forced on in
some port as a hackaround for port bugs instead of fixing the port is
*also* never OK.

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