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[Doug Barton]

On 05/29/2012 12:08, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:48:00AM -0700 I heard the voice of
> Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus:

>> The whole concept of category/portname where there are multiple
>> versions of portname is flawed. The DEFAULT_PORTNAME_VER mechanism
>> works just fine, especially for dependencies.
> 
> The disadvantage though is that we need to grow and use b.p.m
> infrastructure then for every port we start handling multiple versions
> of.

No, only for those ports that are depended on, where multiple versions
can be used to fulfill a dependency. The full-blown infrastructure would
only be needed in this case. For leaf ports (ala bind*) it's not needed
at all, and for other depended ports (ala libtorrent-rasterbar*) where
only one version is suitable (or desirable) for the leaf it's not
necessary.

Doug

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