portupgrade system destruction?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:04:02PM +0000, Andrew Sinclair wrote:

> Portupgrade makes a mess at the best of times. A recursive portupgrade 
> is not so clever about dependencies, particually on a live system. On 
> occasion, it even seems to tamper with core libraries which is what 
> would have occured in your case.

Can you provide some evidence of these claims?  I'm suspicious :-)

Kris
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