intrusive PORTREVISION bumping

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Sun Mar 13 20:54:25 PST 2005


On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:43:31 -0500 (EST), Mikhail Teterin  
<mi at corbulon.video-collage.com> wrote:

> Why was the PORTREVISION of editors/ooodict-all bumped on Saturday?
> According to the log message, it was to "chase the glib20 version".
>
> The port installs nothing but data and does not even build anything.
>
> I understand, that keeping track of such things complicates gnome's
> upgrade commits, but such gratuitous bumping is going to result in
> plenty of automatic reinstalls around the world _for no good reason
> whatsoever_...
>
> Can it, please, be avoided in the future? Thanks!

Yes, if you keep your eyes open.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-openoffice/2005-March/001377.html

Cheers,
Mezz

> 	-mi


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