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Subject: Re: svn commit: r391493 - head/cad/tkgate
From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
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On 7 Jul 2015, at 11:40, Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> I'm trying to say that's it's a bad practice to prefer base system
> dependencies for the ports software.

I disagree.

> By nature, the ports are the
> rolling release of software where we have the most recent versions of
> software. Isn't it sane to prefer dependencies on the software
> installed from the ports as well?

By that logic, we should have a version of libc and all other libraries =
in /usr/lib in ports, do rolling releases of them, and never have any =
dependencies on anything in the base system from ports software.

> This would also allow to upgrade
> software easily (including security fixes, for example).

The real problem is that upgrading the base system is harder than =
upgrading ports.  The fix for this is to make upgrading the base system =
easier, not to remove all uses of the base system.

David