Date: 9 Feb 2003 17:56:26 +0100 From: "clemens fischer" <ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org> To: "Yury Tarasievich" <grog@grsu.by> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types... Message-ID: <smuxs891.fsf@ID-23066.news.dfncis.de> In-Reply-To: <3E440393.3080506@grsu.by> (Yury Tarasievich's message of "Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:05:55 %2B0200") References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> <3E440393.3080506@grsu.by>
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Yury Tarasievich <grog@grsu.by>: > I'd like to see in dependencies not only like "was built with > -1.9_2abc, so wants it", but also something like -1.5+ (obviously > 1.5.0 and newer), -* (any version will do). Perhaps something else. At > least to have possibility of specifying that, if this can't go into > official ports. Does it seem reasonable? this problem has been annoying me for ages, but he who implements this should consider dependencies specified too liberally. sometimes newer versions aren't backwards compatible, which you can't know back in the past. clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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