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Date:      Fri, 09 Feb 2001 09:08:47 -0800
From:      Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, kraemer@u.washington.edu (Brian Kraemer), freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ports updating... Good ways? 
Message-ID:  <21224.981738527@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Message from Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>  of "Fri, 09 Feb 2001 03:45:04 %2B0200." <200102090145.f191j9513959@vic.sabbo.net> 

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> It's questionable point. The real life is often more messy and new
> version of a port may need really up-to-date versions of its dependencies.
> Good example is my addition of --build= stub into libtool. While this change
> is undetectable from the point of view of package dependency mechanism
> (i.e. no files were added or removed), change in functionality would
> prevent ports that use that feature from building correctly if older
> version is installed (anything below 1.3.4_1).

Precisely. Thanks for stating it in more detail than I did, Maxim.

- Jordan


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