Bug with multiple port: dependencies in depends_lib ?

[Rainer Müller]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On second thought, I don't see why we want to install MacPorts using  
> MacPorts. Doesn't that make it impossible to install MacPorts if you  
> do not already have MacPorts?

No, I think MacPorts would need to do some bootstrapping on install.

But it would make commands like this answer correctly:
$ port provides /opt/local/bin/port

Additionally, ports could maybe require a specific version of MacPorts
later (given a new dependency engine capable of this). So an upgrade of 
base could be delayed until it is absolutely necessary.

Currently, the installation is not easily capable of removing files from
existing installations on upgrade. We need to manually remove paths we
no longer use in 'make install' and the postflight script (for example I 
did so for the old non-compressed man pages).

Rainer