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Date:      Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:40:59 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        pav@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/shells/bash Makefile pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <p06240804c5f17be2e567@[128.113.24.47]>
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At 9:37 AM +0100 3/26/09, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn p=ED=94e v st 25. 03. 2009 v 18:18 -0400:
>
>>  >That is the only case I can think of.  Even changing the comment or
>>  >pkg-descr should have its PORTREVISION bumped in order to get a new
>>  >package built so users have the fresh description.
>>
>>  Ew, I don't like that at all.  Why should I rebuild (say) bash just
>>  because someone fixes a typo in the description?  The port is already
>>  installed, and I have no intention of reading the description until
>>  *maybe* the next time the package really does change.
>>
>>  It's probably not that big a deal for bash, which is fairly easy to
>>  build and well-behaved.  Now let's change the pkg-descr for some key
>>  component of Gnome, and have people spend a day to rebuild it and
>>  everything that depends on it, just because a description changed?
>
>Certainly not everything that depends on it. You have a good overview
>of how ports work?

Oh, right, this wouldn't be the kind of change which would trigger
rebuilds of other components, even if the change was to some kind
of library.  I was just thinking of some changes where I only had
one port which was really out-of-date, but updating that component
triggered rebuilds of many other ports.

Well, still, why rebuild *anything* because pkg-desc changed?

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =3D   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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