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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:23:54 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tilman_Keskin=F6z?= <arved@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua>
Cc:        ruby@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/134182: ports-mgmt/portupgrade incorrectly handles	manual reject to upgrade
Message-ID:  <4E2E6B8A.6060700@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110726050551.GC1941@netch.kiev.ua>
References:  <201107251154.p6PBsPba098661@freefall.freebsd.org> <20110726050551.GC1941@netch.kiev.ua>

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On 07/26/2011 07:05 AM, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Do you remember FreeBSD motto - "Tools, not policy"? You have depriven us of
> good tool to track dependencies, which still can be useful for complex
> circumstances as locally crafted packages, basing on suspect which can be
> easily fixed with one small option.

Well, it is just harder for you to shoot your foot without an automatic
tool, but all the pkg_tools still allow what you want to do.

Another option for you might be to provide a patch and apply for the job
as the future portupgrade maintainer. Then you will get the mail from
all the people that used this feature an ran into problems.






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