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Subject: Re: SoC application: please comment!
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What I'd like to see added, is a flag, which would cause bsd.port.mk to simply 
ignore the explicit shared libraries' major numbers in LIB_DEPENDS.

In almost all cases requiring a specific number does not make sense (not from 
a user's point of view, anyway). It only causes unneccessary rebuilds:

	* install mplayer, which uses libFOO.X
	* wait a week
	* update the ports-tree
	* try to install vlc -- oops, because of the shlib number bump of libFOO,
	  got to rebuild the libFOO and the mplayer, which uses it.

Of course, vlc would use libFOO.X just as well libFOO.X+1 -- in almost all 
cases. So there is no point in _forcing_ the user to rebuild all that...

The proposed knob would allow the users to ignore the numbers. I hope, of 
course, that the flag will, eventually, become default...

	-mi