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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:09:00 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/dpkg Makefile ports/archivers/gtar
Message-ID:  <1061827740.710.1.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030825155557.GA75164@huckfinn.arved.de>
References:  <200308250541.h7P5fcjm023272@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030825155557.GA75164@huckfinn.arved.de>

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On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:55, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> * Joe Marcus Clarke [Mo, 25 Aug 2003 at 07:47 GMT]:
> > marcus      2003/08/24 22:41:38 PDT
> >=20
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> >=20
> >   Modified files:
> [..]
> >   Log:
> >   Chase the libintl.so shared lib version.
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> Thank you for doing the work.
>=20
> Did you consider bumping PORTREVISIONs?
> The Porters Handbook suggests it, and imho it helps people to not screw u=
p
> their system. (But I can see this is an edge case, since so many ports ar=
e
> involved).

I considered it, but immediately dismissed it.  Even though 175 ports
_explicitly_ depend on libintl, almost _all_ of them implicitly depend
on it.  Therefore, it was just easier to chase the shared lib, then
recommend users do a forced recursive upgrade to get all children.

Joe

>=20
> Regards
> tilman
--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus@FreeBSD.org
gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome


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