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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:01:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        roam@ringlet.net
Cc:        sobomax@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/autotrace Makefile ports/graphics/graphviz Makefile ports/graphics/libafterimage Makefile ports/graphics/librsvg Makefile ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile ports/graphics/sdl_ttf Makefile ports/print/ft2demos Makefile ...
Message-ID:  <200203121601.g2CG1G3b073557@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020312134137.B447@straylight.oblivion.bg>

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On 12 Mar, Peter Pentchev wrote:
 
> As soon as I saw this, a bell rang out, loudly: what about
> www/mod_php4? This is not the first time this has happened - a shared
> library version bump, followed by a commit which does *not* catch ALL
> dependent ports.

Yes, and then a strange looking man from the corner starts whining again
-- why are the major numbers there at all? All of those ports will
build fine with libfreetype.so.[56789] -- it is rather rare to have a
situation, when a particular version is needed by a depending port...

To help with binary upgrades? Please, the ports system is about building
from source. Binary packages are secondary...

	-mi


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