Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:31:24 +0300 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, pav@freebsd.org, freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Ports management tools in the base (Was: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml) Message-ID: <cb5206420703210131j9600668v3750be8780814cf0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070321083401.7x3vh4rb4wgs0wcw@webmail.leidinger.net> References: <200703181638.l2IGcoaj003204@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070319125101.4lb7lljt5w4cwog8@webmail.leidinger.net> <1174308178.15322.13.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <45FF29E4.4060305@FreeBSD.org> <46004202.5040603@gmail.com> <20070320214735.0d55a1cb@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <4600647D.2040305@FreeBSD.org> <20070321083401.7x3vh4rb4wgs0wcw@webmail.leidinger.net>
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On 3/21/07, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote: > When you need a program which needs a newer lib than installed on a > production system, but you don't get a maintenance window to update > all other programs which use this lib, then not having the old lib > will hurt. > > When the reason for the library version bump also requires to change > some parts in the source of the programs which make use of the lib, > you have to update all programs at once. If some programs have bugs in > more recent versions which you can't accept in production and when you > need to install a program which needs the new lib version, you are > busted when you don't have the old lib around. But don't you smell an architectural flaw here (of the ports system) and don't you feel that working around it in a tool in the base system might only mess things up even more?..
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