[75039] trunk/dports/kde/kdelibs4/Portfile

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Jan 13 12:35:42 PST 2011


On 2011-01-13 21:28 , Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> If you're going to do that, then you need to bump the revision too, to force a rebuild for everyone who already installed kdelibs4 without kerberos5 support.
> 
> I'd rather avoid that, rebuilding kdelibs to change functionality would have similar possible new features in subsequent packages. That is, kdegraphics4 would make use of the new kerberos hooks for build app X.

Every time the dependencies are changed, the revision needs to be
incremented.

Otherwise the dependency management does not work anymore. As an
example, anyone uninstalling kerberos5 would not be warned that it is
still in use by kdelibs4.

> Really, the whole of KDE above kdelibs might need rebuilt.

Why do you think that is the case?

Rainer


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