devel/gettext notification in /usr/ports/UPDATING

[Erik Trulsson]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:38:51PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > I don't really understand why it's there and why it's recommending to 
> > rebuild
> > all ports.
> > 
> > I have 761 ports installed, but only 173 of them depend on gettext, so 
> > why should
> > I reinstall more than 530 ports that don't need to be rebuild.
> > 
> > What's even worse according to my shell-script pkg_libchk not a single 
> > one of
> > the 173 ports depending on gettext needs to be rebuild because of libintl.
> 
> Great, all ports depending on devel/gettext got bumped.
> 
> My Shell script checks every single library and executable on the system
> with ldd and it says _nothing is amiss_ after upgrading devel/gettext.

And how does it know that all the existing libraries and executables are
completely compatible with the new devel/gettext?


> 
> Now I am condemned to rebuild ~100 ports, even though it is completely
> unnecessary.

Nobody forces you to rebuild them if you do not think it is necessary.

> I do not have to tell you that downloading all the distfiles
> over a GSM connection will take days.

If you already have built the ports once, you will probably have most
of the distfiles already.

> And all this for no reason at all!
> 
> What's going on here?
> 
> Ldd says it's not necessary. Can anyone really argue with that?

How can ldd determine that it is not necessary?


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