recent portrevision bump for libvpx

Chris Rees crees at freebsd.org
Fri Feb 17 17:37:30 UTC 2012


On 17 February 2012 13:59, Mikhail T. <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> On -10.01.-28163 14:59, Jakub Lach wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of recent libvpx update, some ports explicitly look
>> for libvpx.so.0, and fail to update trying to install again libvpx
>> which is already installed.
>>
>> e.g. multimedia/gstreamer-plugins-vp8
>
> Yet again I'd like to point out, that -- contrary to the wide-spread
> practice -- ports should not, by default, list a particular shlib major
> number in LIB_DEPENDS. Only in cases, when a wrong version of some libfoo is
> known to cause problems, should the correct version be explicitly given in
> LIB_DEPENDS.

Perhaps someone could make a patch for the Porter's Handbook.

Chris


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