On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 09:41:34PM +0200, Kamil Cholewi??ski wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jul 2016, Chris Bennett <chrisbenn...@bennettconstruction.us> > wrote: > > This can't be done and should NOT be done. if you are asked to choose > > between two+ different versions, often that choice is based on the other > > package(s) that depend on a particular version. You may even need to > > install both versions when two of your other packages require one of > > each of the two. See python. I have packages that require python 3.x.x > > and some others which require python 2.x.x. > > Even more as a good example, look at all of the different versions of > > autoconf. How could an automated version of pkg_add possibly guess which > > version you actually need in two months? > > You've totally missed the 99% use case: "just give me the latest version".
That's a thoroughly stupid idea. Let me elaborate: that's exactly what you have 99% of the case. There are about 200 packages out of 9000 in the ports tree where there is an ambiguity concerning the version number. *all* of these cases are there for a reason. They always mean you *really* have to choose because there is some reason for which you have several distinct branches in the tree. Now, a branch selector to be able to automate installation, that makes sense and that's why I added that to current. But choosing and running the latest version automatically ? that's the computer equivalent of running blindfolded into traffic on a speedway.
