cvs commit: ports/graphics/djvulibre Makefile ports/textproc/wordnet Makefile

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 15. July 2005 17:57, Pav Lucistnik wrote:

> These PORTREVISION bumps are here mainly for the users. Because, when a
> library raises it's major version number, you need to relink all C
> binaries linked against the old copy of the library...

... except that portupgrade keeps old libraries in a cache just so you don't.

> PORTREVISION bumps together with common usage of portupgrade helps this
> very nicely.

On the contrary, bumping PORTREVISION for shared library bumps is a disservice 
to portupgrade users.

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