upgrade outdated is making me miserable

[Joshua Root]

On 2009-7-22 03:08, Lenore Horner wrote:
> I thought nothing on my list of ports that were outdated was anything I
> had installed with options beyond what where the defaults I set (not to
> use X11 specifically).  I thought upgrade at least obeyed the default
> options.  I knew it didn't obey the hand ones.  Now I have a ton of xorg
> stuff installing that I definitely absolutely do not want.  Is there any
> way of undoing this mess other than uninstalling macports entirely and
> then installing the things I really want individually.  Can I never do
> upgrade, but must always uninstall and then install port by port?

Pretty much: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/8221>

- Josh