Dependency Problem of Upgrading Gnuplot: A Possible Bug

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:05 PM, Xin Liu wrote:
> I think an easier and safer way of is to modify the logic in
> macports::upgrade{} such that when it tries to upgrade things in
> $portinfo(depends_build), $portinfo(depends_run) and
> $portinfo(depends_lib), for every bin/lib style dependency, it does
> one of the following: 1) if the bin/lib file does not exist, install
> the corresponding port (the port specified at the end of the bin/lib
> style); 2) if the bin/lib file exists and the corresponding port is
> installed, upgrade the corresponding port; 3) otherwise, do nothing.

That would probably work ... (at least, it addresses the concern that  
I had).

If you want to make a patch to have it work that way, I'd be happy to  
review it.
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