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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:46:21 +0100
From:      lupe@lupe-christoph.de (Lupe Christoph)
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting
Message-ID:  <20050115114621.GD10123@lupe-christoph.de>
In-Reply-To: <20050114220835.GC74151@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday, 2005-01-14 at 14:08:37 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> That would be a big cop-out - it's hardly friendly to make every port
> user update to -stable or take manual steps to avoid a broken package
> system.  There needs to be a better solution than that.

How do you make a port depend on a minimum version of another package? A
port using a new feature could depend on sysutils/pkg_install, version
foo.bar which first supported this feature.

LUpe Christoph
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