>> comments?  thoughts?
>
>Is this the same as "make show-downlevel"?

i don't think so, no.  that target seems to be useful for recursing
the pkgsrc tree or checking a single package against what version
could be installed.

"make show-needs-update" recurses into all the dependencies of the
given package, and makes sure they're all up to date.

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