{ darwin any } ports getting reinstalled after OS upgrade

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 27, 2023, at 05:57, Nils Breunese wrote:
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> I noticed that ports that use ‘platform { darwin any }’ get reinstalled during this process, and ‘port outdated’ shows ‘(platform darwin 22 ≠ 23)’. Does MacPorts really need to reinstall these ports if they’re marked as being suitable for any Darwin version?

I agree, MacPorts should not need to reinstall those ports, but there is evidently no code at present to let it know that. You could file an enhancement ticket in Trac.