Upgrades that include netpbm

[Barrie Stott]

On 12 Jun 2015, at 22:08, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at macports.org> wrote:
> That would break other ports that depend upon netpbm. Worse, I think port will
> automatically re-activate it, if it comes to such a port.
> 
> I would hope those are only upgraded *after* netpbm itself --- and using a port that has a `port upgrade` scheduled against it is a dicey proposition no matter what.

I am puzzled and a little worried about the part of  your sentence after '---'. Does it mean that once I know a port upgrade is needed I should do it before any other computing work? I usually do other things alongside an upgrade.

Barrie.