Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:15:32 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Subject: Re: Problems with +CONTENTS being messed up by pkg_delete -f Message-ID: <46A109D4.4080301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <46A01B10.6080207@u.washington.edu> References: <20070718154452.B3091@math.missouri.edu> <1184799050.33981.66.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <469EC915.7010006@math.missouri.edu> <469EE627.4000100@u.washington.edu> <1184866302.33981.89.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> <469FB6D3.80607@FreeBSD.org> <46A01B10.6080207@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Personally I think that:
> 1. Versions shouldn't matter when calculating absolute dependencies
> (i.e. net/samba may depend on popt).
Can you give some kind of context for this comment?
> 2. If versions do change for a dependent package, the packages
> dependent on the changed package should also be rebuilt.
Noooooooo, that should definitely not be the default, as it's hardly
ever necessary to actually do that, and when it is we have more than
enough ports management tools nowadays to handle it.
Doug
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