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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

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