Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #40596, comment 4


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Sep 28, 2013, 1:44:03 AM (11 years ago)
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cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
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  • Ticket #40596, comment 4

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    44I still think it's worth it to list rdeps explicitly if the port actually links against them, just in case the dependency chain later gets broken... for example, when gnutls was upgraded from version 2 to version 3, it dropped the dependency on libgcrypt, and then all of a sudden a bunch of ports that had depended on gnutls to drag in the libgcrypt dependency now had to list the libgcrypt dependency themselves explicitly. It'd be better to head these issues off preemptively by just listing the dependencies explicitly in the first place.
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     6Edit: Also listing rdeps explicitly makes it easier to tell which dependents need revbumping whenever there's a major version upgrade.
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