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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:10:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "# Version required:"
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002121805560.88574-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000212180205.A42274@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, David O'Brien wrote:

> Can we please get rid of the "Version required:" header in Ports
> Makefile's?  In 5+ years, I've never gotten any useful information from
> it.  It server to only clutter up the Makefile and most of the time it's
> not even up to date.

Hmm..having a "version number" variable would be very useful as a
precursor to an automatic 'make upgrade' target which could rebuild ports
and dependencies as needed (you'd also need a PORTS_VERSION variable for
when ports are patched/changed). In the current place in the comments it's
useless and probably always has been, but maybe instead of just removing
it we should move it to a VERSION variable in the makefile body.

Kris



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