intrusive PORTREVISION bumping
Mikhail Teterin
mi at corbulon.video-collage.com
Sun Mar 13 21:13:22 PST 2005
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:43:31 -0500 (EST), Mikhail Teterin
> <mi at corbulon.video-collage.com> wrote:
>
> > Why was the PORTREVISION of editors/ooodict-all bumped on Saturday?
> > According to the log message, it was to "chase the glib20 version".
> >
> > The port installs nothing but data and does not even build anything.
> >
> > I understand, that keeping track of such things complicates gnome's
> > upgrade commits, but such gratuitous bumping is going to result in
> > plenty of automatic reinstalls around the world _for no good reason
> > whatsoever_...
> >
> > Can it, please, be avoided in the future? Thanks!
>
> Yes, if you keep your eyes open.
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2005-March/001377.html
You must think, I'm on the openoffice@ list. I'm not. I'm just a user of
their port(s)...
I don't think, they ought to be responsible either -- Gnome@'s method of
determining the dependencies is flawed... Yours,
-mi
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