From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 7 03:53:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A5E1065672 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 03:53:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749A98FC12 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 2010 03:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24569 invoked by uid 399); 7 Feb 2010 03:53:55 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.110?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 7 Feb 2010 03:53:55 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B6E3960.5000605@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:54:08 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <1781265383542@webmail54.yandex.ru> <20100206004206.5b87b5ee@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <01qv37-4ho2.ln1@news.hansenet.de> <4B6D3D80.5000400@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4B6DCBA2.5030202@quip.cz> <20100206224504.697dc717@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <7d6fde3d1002061252i19aa684aw8363ac1ca61c4c29@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d1002061252i19aa684aw8363ac1ca61c4c29@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Recent massive port update. 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: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:53:57 -0000 On 2/6/2010 12:52 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Excessive documentation is not any more helpful than no > documentation. I would think it's relatively common sense to rebuild > all applications that depend upon a library, When that library bumps the major version, yes. If not, it's rarely necessary to rebuild everything that depends on it, that's one of the key features of shared libraries. :) -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso