From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 20 19:43:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F1916A468; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:43:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D771813C458; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:43:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn07.u.washington.edu (hymn07.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.53]) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.06) with ESMTP id l6KJhjMM021484 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:43:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn07.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l6KJhj7h004172; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:43:45 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.10] by hymn07.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:43:45 PDT Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:43:45 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <46A109D4.4080301@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.2.304607, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.7.20.122234 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with +CONTENTS being messed up by pkg_delete -f X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:43:46 -0000 On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Doug Barton wrote: > 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 I've been digesting other comments lately and this thinking isn't the best. I'll kill my other email thread and re-propose another idea after a little more consideration. -Garrett