From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 9 8:56:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E984237B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 08:56:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mout0.freenet.de (mout0.freenet.de [194.97.50.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CB543FAF for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 08:56:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org) Received: from [194.97.50.138] (helo=mx0.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with asmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18hukm-0000Px-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:56:28 +0100 Received: from pd9501627.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.80.22.39] helo=spotteswoode.dnsalias.org) by mx0.freenet.de with asmtp (ID inode@freenet.de) (Exim 4.12 #2) id 18hukm-000616-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:56:28 +0100 Received: (qmail 9483 invoked by uid 0); 9 Feb 2003 16:56:26 -0000 Date: 9 Feb 2003 17:56:26 +0100 Message-ID: From: "clemens fischer" To: "Yury Tarasievich" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types... References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> <3E440393.3080506@grsu.by> In-Reply-To: <3E440393.3080506@grsu.by> (Yury Tarasievich's message of "Fri, 07 Feb 2003 21:05:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd4.6.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yury Tarasievich : > I'd like to see in dependencies not only like "was built with > -1.9_2abc, so wants it", but also something like -1.5+ (obviously > 1.5.0 and newer), -* (any version will do). Perhaps something else. At > least to have possibility of specifying that, if this can't go into > official ports. Does it seem reasonable? this problem has been annoying me for ages, but he who implements this should consider dependencies specified too liberally. sometimes newer versions aren't backwards compatible, which you can't know back in the past. clemens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message