Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:28:21 -0800 From: Albert Kinderman <albert.kinderman@csun.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Version Numbers of Packages (KDE) Message-ID: <3AB14205.90555D57@csun.edu> References: <3AB0F9D3.B7ED8EEE@csun.edu> <20010315141434.B66090@mollari.cthul.hu>
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Kris:
Thanks for the explanation. As you mentioned, a system that has
dependencies of the form libneeded >= (minimum version number)
would handle the problem.
Al
Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:20:19AM -0800, Albert Kinderman wrote:
[snip]
> > If the different versions of the kde packages depend on different
> > versions of various libraries, why do they not carry different
> > minor version numbers (e.g., kdelibs-2.1.1 ) so that you can
> > install a consistent set?
>
> Because that would be too hard to manage. The packages depend on
> whatever version of the dependencies exists in the ports collection at
> the time they're built. Large packages with many dependencies like
> KDE (or worse, GNOME) might have a dependency updated every few days,
> which would cause several version bumps per week under your system, as
> well as causing massive workloads for committers to track down and
> bump the version on every port which depends on a port they upgrade.
>
> Some changes are on the horizon to fix this by allowing packages to
> depend on a range of versions of their dependencies, but today you
> just have to live with it (force the installation with -f if you don't
> want to download the new version of the child)
>
> Kris
>
--
Albert Kinderman Department of Management Science
California State University, Northridge
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