Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:35:04 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/textproc/libwpd Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <1136554505.70797.22.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> In-Reply-To: <200601060830.50314@aldan> References: <200601052201.k05M1Hiv047660@repoman.freebsd.org> <200601060810.40777@aldan> <1136553651.70797.19.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <200601060830.50314@aldan>
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Mikhail Teterin píše v pá 06. 01. 2006 v 08:30 -0500:
> On Friday 06 January 2006 08:20 am, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> = You must realize that USE_GNOME came into existence before the
> = LIB_DEPENDS without shlib version were even possible in the framework.
>
> Actually, I think, it was always possible due to how its contents was
> parsed with grep in bsd.port.mk. It is the ability to add templates,
> that is a fairly recent (3 years?) feature.
I'm quite confident it wasn't possible until the introduction of regex
parsing in there... don't know for how long it's present, thou.
> It then took me several years of on-and-off "flame wars" to
> shatter the surprisingly deep seated (and wrong) perception, that
> package-dependencies will break if the shlib number are omitted.
I don't see how it could break package dependencies.
> Many maintainers still would not omit them causing a lot of gratuitious
> upgrades. Probably, because the examples in the handbook don't show it.
People hang on it so badly (including me) perhaps because it was (and
still is) considered a good style for so long...
I still have to convince myself that it's bad style.
--
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
Geography is only physics slowed down, with a few trees stuck on it...
-- Terry Pratchett
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