Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:43:45 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with +CONTENTS being messed up by pkg_delete -f Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0707201243450.29849@hymn07.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46A109D4.4080301@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Doug Barton wrote: > Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> Personally I think that: >> 1. Versions shouldn't matter when calculating absolute dependencies >> (i.e. net/samba may depend on popt). > > Can you give some kind of context for this comment? > >> 2. If versions do change for a dependent package, the packages >> dependent on the changed package should also be rebuilt. > > Noooooooo, that should definitely not be the default, as it's hardly > ever necessary to actually do that, and when it is we have more than > enough ports management tools nowadays to handle it. > > Doug I've been digesting other comments lately and this thinking isn't the best. I'll kill my other email thread and re-propose another idea after a little more consideration. -Garrett
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