Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:24:16 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Mikhail Teterin" <Mikhail.Teterin@murex.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors/abiword-devel -- 2.3.2 is now available Message-ID: <op.stvhuqjt9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <200507131810.29307.Mikhail.Teterin@murex.com> References: <200507130346.j6D3keOm019090@blue.virtual-estates.net> <op.stvf85j69aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <200507131810.29307.Mikhail.Teterin@murex.com>
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:10:29 -0500, Mikhail Teterin <Mikhail.Teterin@murex.com> wrote: > середа 13 липень 2005 17:49, Jeremy Messenger Ви написали: >> > There would be no harm in extracting these, but there is a danger, >> that >> > now or in later releases something may include a header from the >> bundled >> > copy of one of the packages (PACKAGE), while still linking with the >> > -lPACKAGE installed by the PACKAGE port. >> >> I think it's good idea, but remove abiword-plugins from the EXTERNALS. > > Why bother extracting abiword-plugins, when it is not needed? Aren't the > plugins installed by their own port? > >> png.4 -> png.5, you still have to rebuild it anyway because of abiword >> will be still linking to libpng.so.4. > > I am sorry, I can not parse the above statement. My point -- as you seem > to > have missed it -- is that a user, who already has libpng.so.4 installed, > should NOT be forced by the abiword build to upgrade his png port. > > If you disagree and think, she/he should be forced to do so, please say: > "yes"... Yes. > Note, I'm talking about _package_ building -- that is not going to be > affected > by the change I propose _at all_. > >> So, force it to rebuild abiword will get it to link on libpng.so.5. I >> rather to keep them in Makefile as what it's now, it's easier to grep >> in >> ports tree for know which need to be change and bump. > > You can still grep for ``png''. Better yet, use the INDEX file. Having > png.5 > there does not help you _anyway_ -- the png port has already gone through > several upgrades without changing the major number. grep for 'png' isn't good enough, 'png.5' is bettter. What make you think everybody have the INDEX? I don't have any here. > So, there is no advantage in keeping the shared library numbers there, > but > there is a significant disadvantage -- the users are required to upgrade > all > changed dependencies, whenever they want to build abiword. I am expecting them to. People that keep old stuff and build new source that depend on old stuff cause a lot of problems, so force the habit of it to upgrade all new dependencies before you install anything new in port is good. Cheers, Mezz > -mi -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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