On, Sun Aug 18, 2013, The BSD Dreamer wrote: [...] > What wasn't clear was that this applied to everybody, whether they knowingly > installed lang/python2* or lang/python3*, or not. Since, installing a port > that wants the python results in lang/python27 being installed by default > (and still does.) > > So, when I tried updating www/firefox with portmaster this morning, it broke > python for everything by updating only lang/python27 for me. What happens to > the many other fresh systems when somebody builds their first port that pulls > in the default python, which is lang/python27, but that's not enough for > satisfy the dependency?
This was a serious issue in my tests, causing quite some problems and which was fixed later on that day. It should not be a problem anymore at the moment. Cheers Marcus
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