intrusive PORTREVISION bumping

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Mikhail Teterin wrote:

>>On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:43:31 -0500 (EST), Mikhail Teterin  
>><mi at corbulon.video-collage.com> wrote:
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>>>Why was the PORTREVISION of editors/ooodict-all bumped on Saturday?
>>>According to the log message, it was to "chase the glib20 version".
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>>>The port installs nothing but data and does not even build anything.
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>>>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_...
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>>>Can it, please, be avoided in the future? Thanks!
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>>Yes, if you keep your eyes open.
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>>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2005-March/001377.html
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>You must think, I'm on the openoffice@ list. I'm not. I'm just a user of
>their port(s)...
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>I don't think, they ought to be responsible either -- Gnome@'s method of
>determining the dependencies is flawed... Yours,
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It is not. Consult pkg_info. Other methods require specific port 
knowledge. And IMHO having 900 cases for review the only right way to 
ask maintainers for help. So move your energy into right direction ;-)

All the best,
Alexander.