7 Mar
2008
7 Mar
'08
6:24 p.m.
Blair Zajac wrote:
If you have the base port installed, say libfoo, but it's not listed as a dependency, then if you remove it, then you'll unintentionally break any ports that picked up a dependency upon it at configure time.
Thanks for the clarification, I think you are kind of right. But it will always hit someone not affected by the update. For example, changing depends_* inside some variants and incrementing the revsion forces all users to recompile - even if they don't use this variant... As an additional comment, I don't think port lint is yet stable enough to be used as a commit filter (rejecting commits not passing port lint). Rainer