portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:13, Mark Linimon wrote:
> There's really quite a bit of email in the mailing list archives
> about why this was done.  The short summary is that in the short
> run there is some pain but in the long run this is a win for the
> project, and the users.

IMHO it would have been nice for a clearer announcement to have been made 
regarding this, eg the reasoning and work arounds (which are easy but you 
have to know about them :)

It is a very user visible change and it's rather disruptive (because make 
index is very time consuming)

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