repeated rebuilding

[Christopher Vance]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> 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    port upgrade outdated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 No, but it is meant to not rebuild anything that isn't outdated.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 which causes ports to rebuilt even if they don't appear to be outdated.

I had copied -f from a porticus run without understanding what it meant.

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Christopher Vance