For a more advanced user: Is it wrong to have the same port with different versions installed? I mean if portname-versionA and portname-versionB is installed going to cause harm?
It seems that dependencies are going to know which version they should be calling. I am wrong about this?
Be specific. Some ports can only be installed once (no two versions at the same time), some ports can be installed in multiple versions (like Python). There is no generic answer.
Depends on the port. If there are two versions in the ports tree, it's fine. If there's only one version in ports, but you have two installed, that's not good. Besides installing files in the same places, you may have other ports depending on the wrong one. ports-mgmt/portupgrade and ports-mgmt/portmaster avoid that situation.
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