[MacPorts] #22346: Recursive depends pseudo-portname selectors

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#22346: Recursive depends pseudo-portname selectors
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 Reporter:  ashley.moran@…                 |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  enhancement                    |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                         |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  base                           |     Version:  1.8.1                                
 Keywords:                                 |        Port:                                       
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 Sorry if the syntax of this is not quite right, it was a while ago and I
 didn't save the commands.  I've had a todo note to report it for a while.

 This came up recently when I wanted to upgrade ports after Snow Leopard
 was released.  Because ghc hadn't been updated, I wanted to update
 everything that didn't depend on it.   I tried something like this:

 {{{
 # port upgrade not depends:ghc
 }}}

 But this only excludes ports that depend directly on ghc, so it still
 tries to upgrade ports that depend on those.

 What I'd like to do is this:

 {{{
 # port upgrade not recursive-depends:ghc
 }}}

 I'm not sure if it would be better to do that as a separate selector, or
 to change the behaviour of the current depends.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22346>
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