Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

[Xin Liu]

At least, "install" and "upgrade" should be consistent. If "install"
does not install something, "upgrade" should not touch that either; if
"upgrade" would touch something, "install" should install that in the
first place. Otherwise, there's too much confusion, and I don't think
I'm the only one that is confused.

As for the policy of "including everything in macports", I don't buy
it, but it's another story and may be discussed in separate threads.

Best
Regards,

Xin Liu

> bin style dependencies are discouraged because of problems like this.
>
> The upgrade code (unless you pass it -n, which is what you want to be
> doing to fix this particular issue for yourself) needs to upgrade
> library dependencies (for cases where the new version of the port
> needs the newer library) and can't just check bin/lib style
> dependencies in that case (as the port could be installed, but is an
> older version).
>
> --
> Daniel J. Luke