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Date:      Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:40:59 +0100
From:      Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org,  svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r391493 - head/cad/tkgate
Message-ID:  <559BACBB.2030308@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <53EEEF45-07F5-4EFF-847D-C31B53917A70@FreeBSD.org>
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On 07/07/2015 11:34, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2015, at 11:29, Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
>> 
>> With this logic being enabled, we would have different runtime
>> dependencies for different FreeBSD versions
> 
> This is already the case for iconv and was previously the case for
> other libraries that eventually had their functionality appear in
> libc.
> 
> David
> 

I'm trying to say that's it's a bad practice to prefer base system
dependencies for the ports software. 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? This would also allow to upgrade
software easily (including security fixes, for example). I'm merely
thinking about users experiences here.

- -- 
Vsevolod Stakhov
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