On 3/19/07, Mikhail Teterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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...
The problem is to find the minority(?) of cases when shlib bumps are significant and cause run-time quirks if not completed correctly. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
