SoC application: please comment!

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 3/19/07, Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> What I'd like to see added, is a flag, which would cause bsd.port.mk to simply
> ignore the explicit shared libraries' major numbers in LIB_DEPENDS.
>
> In almost all cases requiring a specific number does not make sense (not from
> a user's point of view, anyway). It only causes unneccessary rebuilds:
>
>         * install mplayer, which uses libFOO.X
>         * wait a week
>         * update the ports-tree
>         * try to install vlc -- oops, because of the shlib number bump of libFOO,
>           got to rebuild the libFOO and the mplayer, which uses it.
>
> Of course, vlc would use libFOO.X just as well libFOO.X+1 -- in almost all
> cases. So there is no point in _forcing_ the user to rebuild all that...
>
> The proposed knob would allow the users to ignore the numbers. I hope, of
> course, that the flag will, eventually, become default...

The problem is to find the minority(?) of cases when
shlib bumps are significant and cause run-time quirks
if not completed correctly.