repeated rebuilding

[Joshua Root]

Christopher Vance wrote:
> When I do
>    port upgrade outdated
> some packages get rebuilt several times.
> 
> Isn't port supposed to calculate and order transitive dependencies to stop this?

No, but it is meant to not rebuild anything that isn't outdated. What
you describe should not be possible unless you're using the -f option,
which causes ports to rebuilt even if they don't appear to be outdated.

- Josh