On 3/21/07, Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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