[MacPorts] #12989: port -f upgrade considered harmful

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#12989: port -f upgrade considered harmful
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 Reporter:  stephen@…           |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect              |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:  MacPorts Future                      
Component:  base                |     Version:  1.5.0                                
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Comment(by stephen@…):

 Replying to [comment:2 dluke@…]:
 > As a side note, the error message doesn't say to -f upgrade ... it says
 >
 > "You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it needs
 to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port"

 No.  That message is issued from a different place.  The one that caused
 me to use -f upgrade is at the very top of the report, and it says "Please
 deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation."
 From the user's point of view, the error may have interrupted a sequence
 of dependencies, and they want to use -f upgrade to do the whole batch.
 But this has the rather annoying consequence that many packages that don't
 need to be upgraded at all get uninstalled and reinstalled!

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/12989#comment:6>
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