Versions in ports

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Artur Szostak <aszostak at partner.eso.org>
wrote:

> To me, it feels like the MacPorts documentation is misleading the end user
> to believe that upgrading/downgrading individual packages is a routine and
> safe procedure, when my experience tells me otherwise. Can anyone point me
> to the reason behind these design decisions?


I suspect you are reading experience with something like yum or apt-get
into a ports-based system. MacPorts gets most of its behavior from BSD
ports/pkgsrc, and the documentation tends to assume that you are familiar
with that.

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