Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:53:30 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unifying WWW: pkg-descr lines for cpan ports Message-ID: <20050910235330.GB19364@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <432368BC.5000306@FreeBSD.org> References: <200509102222.j8AMMubj032724@bright.research.att.com> <432368BC.5000306@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 04:14:04PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > I respectfully disagree with Erwin, given that this change (at least the > first group) won't alter how anything works, I think it should be done > ASAP. My personal interpretation of the "sweeping changes" rule is that it is primarily designed to keep the current ports dependency tree as close as lock-step to the packages that have already been built to go on the CDs. So, if a tag has to slip on port X, we don't also have to slip tags on N different dependent ports -- or, in the degenerate case, re-freeze the tree and rebuild all the packages. (I hope everyone can agree that we do not want to do that!) As well, things that change shared library revisions or meta-things like KDE/GNOME/X are kept the same for similar reasons. So under this interpretation, I would agree with Doug that this change would be ok. Any of the other portmgr members have an opinion? mcl
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