libxml2 2.9.4 config error #54070 wontfix

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 31, 2017, at 8:36 AM, db <iamsudo at gmail.com> wrote:
> When running port upgrade outdated, couldn't base just deactivate those utilities, upgrade them first and unattended rebuild broken ports/files, which is what the user eventually does manually?

yes, but base doesn't currently know that it should do that (this thread contains some suggestions about how that might be possible).

I do think that improving trace mode is probably the best answer to this problem (and some other hard to solve problems).

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Daniel J. Luke