lots of changes for a small upgrade increment

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 07:43:16PM -0500, Lenore Horner said:
> Actually, I deactivate and then install so my variants are respected.

Note that 'port upgrade' keeps positive variants (eg, +variant1, +variant2)
around by default.

> 
> Among the things listed as outdated was the gtk-doc.
> gtk-doc                        1.11_0 < 1.11_1
> 
> Why would such a small upgrade cause seven new dependencies to be
> installed: db46, gdbm, tcl, tk, python26, py26-libxml2,
> gnome-doc-utils?

gtk-doc was updated to handle varying python versions more consistently with
other ports with variants (+python25 and +python26), and the default is
+python26.  So if you already had 1.11_0, it dependend on python25 and not
specifying +python25 for 1.11_1, you get 2.6.  However, your python25 port
is probably outdated as well as it now brings in some of those ports you've
listed (db46, gdbm, tcl, tk).

Bryan


> 
> Lenore