repeated rebuilding

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Citando 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    port upgrade outdated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 No, but it is meant to not rebuild anything that isn't outdated.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 which causes ports to rebuilt even if they don't appear to be outdated.
> 

Or if a dependency (say libfoo) is outdated: both the dependent (say
bar) and libfoo belong to "outdated". When port upgrades bar, it will
first upgrade its dependencies hence libfoo. When arrives the time to
upgrade libfoo, it will upgrade it once more.

Emmanuel