Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:13:20 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com> To: mezz7@cox.net (Jeremy Messenger) Cc: openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intrusive PORTREVISION bumping Message-ID: <200503140513.j2E5DKSk061264@corbulon.video-collage.com> In-Reply-To: <opsnl2mhuq9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:43:31 -0500 (EST), Mikhail Teterin > <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com> wrote: > > > Why was the PORTREVISION of editors/ooodict-all bumped on Saturday? > > According to the log message, it was to "chase the glib20 version". > > > > The port installs nothing but data and does not even build anything. > > > > I understand, that keeping track of such things complicates gnome's > > upgrade commits, but such gratuitous bumping is going to result in > > plenty of automatic reinstalls around the world _for no good reason > > whatsoever_... > > > > Can it, please, be avoided in the future? Thanks! > > Yes, if you keep your eyes open. > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2005-March/001377.html You must think, I'm on the openoffice@ list. I'm not. I'm just a user of their port(s)... I don't think, they ought to be responsible either -- Gnome@'s method of determining the dependencies is flawed... Yours, -mi
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