Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:26:19 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SoC application: please comment! Message-ID: <200703190826.20211@aldan>
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What I'd like to see added, is a flag, which would cause bsd.port.mk to simply ignore the explicit shared libraries' major numbers in LIB_DEPENDS. In almost all cases requiring a specific number does not make sense (not from a user's point of view, anyway). It only causes unneccessary rebuilds: * install mplayer, which uses libFOO.X * wait a week * update the ports-tree * try to install vlc -- oops, because of the shlib number bump of libFOO, got to rebuild the libFOO and the mplayer, which uses it. Of course, vlc would use libFOO.X just as well libFOO.X+1 -- in almost all cases. So there is no point in _forcing_ the user to rebuild all that... The proposed knob would allow the users to ignore the numbers. I hope, of course, that the flag will, eventually, become default... -mi
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